watched and
sympathized with Chiquita in her ambition; and now at the last turn in
the great course of life, after tasting nearly every phase of civilized
honor, she had returned to the religion of her fathers and died with
utter contempt in her heart for the foibles and allurements of
civilization, civilized society and civilized government.

Transcribers notes:

Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.

Pg 31 and 266, Space after Emdashes, used as thought breaks, retained:
...Hemmingway"-- Jack...
...Hazel"-- A softer,...
...should she"-- He is not...

Pg 40, 41, & 49 - Corrected spelling of 'accumulated' from
'accummulated.'

Pg 165 Corrected spelling of 'Furthermore' from 'Futhermore.'

Pg 183 "Lazy L" symbol used in original instead of text. It is a serif
upper case "L" rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

Pg 212 Corrected 'form' to 'formed', para 1, line 4.

Pg 220 Added accent to 'protoges' (a bride and his two protoges)

Pg 240 Removed extra quote mark before Miss Asquith telegram signature.

Pg 265 Corrected spelling of 'Faithfully' from 'Faithfuly' she
performed...

Pg 267 Corrected spelling of 'performed' from 'perfomed' (Mechanically
she perfomed...)

Pg 301 Corrected spelling of 'burying' ('...even their burrying
grounds...')

Pg 305 Space retained after Emdash, used in lieu of a period at the
end of sentence: ...same God had no"-- The voice failed...

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