RETIE of the French Academy; Mrs. Carlton A. Kingsbury,
Translator.

Transcriber's Notes:

For reasons unknown, the chapter headings show no Chapter XII and no
Chapter XV. The chapter headings were left unchanged. I am told that
both a copy of the physical book and the copy at The Interne Archive
have the same Chapter numbering sequence.

Passages in italics are indicated by _underscores_.

Small caps have been replaced with ALL CAPS text.

On page 15, a quotation mark was placed before "But since you".

On page 15, a quotation mark was placed before "But I am nothing".

On page 35, "in so unforseen" was replaced with "in so unforeseen".

On page 38, "the wordly magistrate" was replaced with "the worldly
magistrate".

On page 40, the quotation mark after "which he wished to" was removed.

On page 40, "the study of M. Rovero" was replaced with "the study of M.
Rovere".

On page 42, "to be exact, thirty-six" was replaced with "to be exact,
twenty-six years".

On page 43, "14th of June, 1848" was replaced with "14th of June, 1868".

On page 46, "devination" was replaced with "divination".

On page 49, "reentered the salon" was replaced with "reentered the
salon".

On page 50, "des Aubrays" was replaced with "des Audrays".

On page 61, "tatooings" was replaced with "tattooings".

On page 64, a single quotation mark before "Art thou satisfied" was
replaced with a double quotation mark.

On page 82, "acqueous" was replaced with "aqueous".

On page 85, "sixteerth" was replaced with "sixteenth".

On page 91, "Mme. Monchie" was replaced with "Mme. Moniche".

On page 99, "chosen by Mr. Rovere" was replaced with "chosen by M.
Rovere".

On page 101, "mein" was replaced with "mien".

On page 110, the [oe] ligature was replaced with "oe".

On page 111, the period after "he replied" was replaced with a comma.

On page 111, a paragraph marker was placed after "Why?".

On page 121, the quotation mark was removed after "Rovere's murder?".

On page 122, a period was placed after "of your biography".

On page 129, the quotation mark was removed after "of death."

On page 140, "Rovere's" was replaced with "Rovere's".

On page 146, "charcteristic" was replaced with "characteristic".

On page 150, "portait which resembled" was replaced with "portrait which
resembled".

On page 153, "Bernadet left enchanted" was replaced with "Bernardet left
enchanted".

On page 164, "ret