Part 15

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[Transcriber's Notes: Typographical errors have been corrected as follows:

Page 14 - "series of familiar letter" replaced with "series of familiar letters"

Page 24 - Question mark added to "Do you remember Thackeray's account..."

Page 95 - "pains of hell gat hold" replaced with "pains of hell got hold"

Page 108 - "jusqu aux" replaced with "jusqu'aux"

Page 127 - "perference" replaced with "preference"

Page 127 - "inbecile" replaced with "imbecile"

Page 196 - Correct single-double quotes before "We live no more" and "More strictly, then"

Page 224 - "vemon" replaced with "venom"

Page 253 - "ligitations" replaced with "litigations"

Page 282 - "his people, which has" replaced with "his people, which have"

Page 287 - "marches" replaced with "marshes"]