Chapter IX: Part 9

"For far beyond the pride and pomp of power, [" invisible]
A soft and silent shower had descended; [; invisible]
Melissa was silent. [. missing or invisible]
the same enquiry respecting you. [. missing or invisible]
you are melancholy. [. invisible]
It would, he said, be a delicate point [first , invisible]
"In our present dilemma, said Alonzo, what is proper to be done?"
[said Alonzo what]
"It is difficult to determine, replied Melissa [" missing]
"The world is before you, answered Vincent [" missing]
alternately humming a tune, and impudently staring at Alonzo
[, invisible]
My mother and Edgar ardently strove [and Edgar, ardently]
"I would advise you, said he [" missing or invisible]
Melissa seated herself at the window. [at the window."]
"Unfeeling and impertinent intruder, retorted Alonzo, [intruder?]
"Well, thou hast wonderful courage, child [Well, thou hast]
perhaps they were still open. [. invisible]
"If you will allow me to name the place, said he [" missing]
but that she must still be there. [be there..]
alternately in the house and the enclosure [alternately, in]
at the seat of her uncle, Col. W. D-- [her uncle. Col.]
"Blue trembling billows, topp'd with foam,"
[" missing or invisible]
grave of my Melissa?" [" missing or invisible]
when we were seated she thus addressed me:
[_no punctuation at end of paragraph_]
"Henry, you know that to promote your peace [" invisible]
though made in the presence of heaven." [" missing]
Candour and correct reason must have answered yes. [. invisible]
"Hallo, messmate! what, scudding under bare poles [" missing]
"Thy case, said he, is a little critical [Thy case said he]
when we will see what can be done." [be done.']
by which you may return to your own country." [. invisible]
it is possible I have been undesignedly accessory [have been,]
"A person with whom I am acquainted [" missing or invisible]
if Col. D----, (Melissa's uncle) [. missing]
"On my return from the inn [" missing]
though slowly, yet surely, disperse [yet surely.]
their eyes spoke sympathy, and they parted.
[. missing or invisible]
intrinsically _good for nothing_." [" missing or invisible]
keep our cousin Melissa in countenance." [" missing or invisible]
a few months after the melancholy tidings arrived [, invisible]
leaving Alfred, their only child, then an infant,
[_second comma invisible, but word-spacing suggests
"Alfred, their only child then, an infant"_]
"Melissa, said he, I find [Melissa said he]
your father's, at Vincent's, and at Mr. Simpson's [Mr Simpson's]
as I have before informed you. [informed you."]
proceeded immediately to his father's. [. missing or invisible]
they welcomed Alonzo, whom they had given up as lost [Alonzo. whom]
"We were school-mates, he replied, and [he replied and]
which my bosom must ever retain; but being separated [; invisible]
they were generally informed of Alonzo's reasons [reason,s]
the celebration at her father's. [. missing or invisible]
The others, though they pursued them, got off. [, invisible]
and for such measures we were amply prepared." [amply prepared.]
The man enquired to what town they were to go, which [, invisible]
They immediately set out for the aforesaid town ["They]
"Ere fate and fortune frown'd severe,"
[closing " missing or invisible]

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The statistically minded reader may like to know that the word "bosom" occurs fifty-nine times in the text, and the word "mansion" sixty-two.