FOOTNOTES
[1]The Institute was a boarding-school for the daughters of the nobility and gentry, in which great attention was paid to the manners and accomplishments of the pupils.
[2]An "envelope" was a small mattress with attached coverlet, on which babies were carried about.
[3]What will you have?
[4]At this place the alternative ending, printed at the end of the story, begins.
[5]Trial by jury was introduced in 1864, and at first the juries were inclined to be extremely lenient to the prisoners.
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