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@@ -1,27 +1,4 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Moonstone - -Author: Wilkie Collins - -Release Date: August, 1994 [eBook #155] -[Most recently updated: September 9, 2022] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: John Hamm and David Widger - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MOONSTONE *** +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 155 *** @@ -29,7 +6,7 @@ Produced by: John Hamm and David Widger THE MOONSTONE - A Romance + A Romance by Wilkie Collins @@ -1322,7 +1299,7 @@ sir, the Colonel’s executor! Why, I would have laid any bet you like, Mr. Franklin, that your father wouldn’t have touched the Colonel with a pair of tongs!” -“Strong language, Betteredge! What was there against the Colonel. He +“Strong language, Betteredge! What was there against the Colonel? He belonged to your time, not to mine. Tell me what you know about him, and I’ll tell you how my father came to be his executor, and more besides. I have made some discoveries in London about my uncle @@ -1913,7 +1890,7 @@ transformations in Mr. Franklin were due to the effect on him of his foreign training. At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring of other people, he had been sent abroad, and had been passed on from one nation -to another, before there was time for anyone colouring more than +to another, before there was time for any one colouring more than another to settle itself on him firmly. As a consequence of this, he had come back with so many different sides to his character, all more or less jarring with each other, that he seemed to pass his life in a @@ -2709,9 +2686,9 @@ awfully out of the depths of its own brightness, with a moony gleam, in the dark. No wonder Miss Rachel was fascinated: no wonder her cousins screamed. The Diamond laid such a hold on _me_ that I burst out with as large an “O” as the Bouncers themselves. The only one of us who kept -his senses was Mr. Godfrey. He put an arm round each of his sister’s +his senses was Mr. Godfrey. He put an arm round each of his sisters’ waists, and, looking compassionately backwards and forwards between the -Diamond and me, said, “Carbon Betteredge! mere carbon, my good friend, +Diamond and me, said, “Carbon, Betteredge! mere carbon, my good friend, after all!” His object, I suppose, was to instruct me. All he did, however, was to @@ -3001,7 +2978,7 @@ husband, and putting it in his clear-headed witty French way to the maiden aunt of the Vicar of Frizinghall? What do you think, when he shifted to the German side, of his telling the lord of the manor, while that great authority on cattle was quoting his experience in the -breeding of bulls, that experience, properly understood counted for +breeding of bulls, that experience, properly understood, counted for nothing, and that the proper way to breed bulls was to look deep into your own mind, evolve out of it the idea of a perfect bull, and produce him? What do you say, when our county member, growing hot, at cheese @@ -3022,7 +2999,7 @@ Candy thereupon told him that his nerves were all out of order and that he ought to go through a course of medicine immediately. Mr. Franklin replied that a course of medicine, and a course of groping in the dark, meant, in his estimation, one and the same thing. Mr. Candy, hitting -back smartly, said that Mr Franklin himself was, constitutionally +back smartly, said that Mr. Franklin himself was, constitutionally speaking, groping in the dark after sleep, and that nothing but medicine could help him to find it. Mr. Franklin, keeping the ball up on his side, said he had often heard of the blind leading the blind, @@ -3040,7 +3017,7 @@ over their wine. I had just ranged the decanters in a row before old Mr. Ablewhite (who represented the master of the house), when there came a sound from the -terrace which, startled me out of my company manners on the instant. +terrace which startled me out of my company manners on the instant. Mr. Franklin and I looked at each other; it was the sound of the Indian drum. As I live by bread, here were the jugglers returning to us with the return of the Moonstone to the house! @@ -3456,7 +3433,7 @@ She dragged me after her into our young lady’s sitting-room, which opened into her bedroom. There, on the threshold of her bedroom door, stood Miss Rachel, almost as white in the face as the white dressing-gown that clothed her. There also stood the two doors of the -Indian cabinet, wide open. One, of the drawers inside was pulled out as +Indian cabinet, wide open. One of the drawers inside was pulled out as far as it would go. “Look!” says Penelope. “I myself saw Miss Rachel put the Diamond into @@ -3665,7 +3642,7 @@ clue that had broken in our hands. If the jugglers were innocent, who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel’s drawer? -Ten minutes later, to our infinite relief; Superintendent Seegrave +Ten minutes later, to our infinite relief, Superintendent Seegrave arrived at the house. He reported passing Mr. Franklin on the terrace, sitting in the sun (I suppose with the Italian side of him uppermost), and warning the police, as they went by, that the investigation was @@ -3701,7 +3678,7 @@ them he suspected, at once. Mr. Superintendent proved equal to the occasion; he looked at them with his resolute eye, and he cowed them with his military voice. -“Now, then, you women, go downstairs again, everyone of you; I won’t +“Now, then, you women, go downstairs again, every one of you. I won’t have you here. Look!” says Mr. Superintendent, suddenly pointing to a little smear of the decorative painting on Miss Rachel’s door, at the outer edge, just under the lock. “Look what mischief the petticoats of @@ -3789,7 +3766,7 @@ I saw of his face from the window, seemed to astonish him beyond all power of expression. While they were still together, my lady appeared on the terrace. Miss Rachel saw her—said a few last words to Mr. Franklin—and suddenly went back into the house again, before her mother -came up with her. My lady surprised herself, and noticing Mr. +came up with her. My lady, surprised herself, and noticing Mr. Franklin’s surprise, spoke to him. Mr. Godfrey joined them, and spoke also. Mr. Franklin walked away a little between the two, telling them what had happened I suppose, for they both stopped short, after taking @@ -4434,7 +4411,7 @@ if he had not spoken, or as if she had not heard him. “I shall be glad to hear it, miss.” -“Do your duty by yourself—and don’t allow Mr Franklin Blake to help +“Do your duty by yourself—and don’t allow Mr. Franklin Blake to help you!” She said those words so spitefully, so savagely, with such an @@ -4506,7 +4483,7 @@ He turned to Sergeant Cuff, and explained that my daughter was Miss Verinder’s maid. “Mr. Betteredge, ask your daughter to step up. Stop!” says the -Sergeant, taking me away to the window, out of earshot, “Your +Sergeant, taking me away to the window, out of earshot. “Your Superintendent here,” he went on, in a whisper, “has made a pretty full report to me of the manner in which he has managed this case. Among other things, he has, by his own confession, set the servants’ backs @@ -4789,7 +4766,7 @@ out, informed the Sergeant that all his clothes were open to examination, and that nothing he possessed was kept under lock and key. Sergeant Cuff made his best acknowledgments. His views, you will observe, had been met with the utmost readiness by my lady, by Mr. -Godfrey, and by Mr. Franklin. There was only Miss. Rachel now wanting +Godfrey, and by Mr. Franklin. There was only Miss Rachel now wanting to follow their lead, before we called the servants together, and began the search for the stained dress. @@ -5572,7 +5549,7 @@ as a good Protestant, that the father of lies is the Devil—and that mischief and the Devil are never far apart. Beginning to smell mischief in the air, I tried to take Sergeant Cuff out. He sat down again instantly, and asked for a little drop of comfort out of the Dutch -bottle. Mrs Yolland sat down opposite to him, and gave him his nip. I +bottle. Mrs. Yolland sat down opposite to him, and gave him his nip. I went on to the door, excessively uncomfortable, and said I thought I must bid them good-night—and yet I didn’t go. @@ -5596,7 +5573,7 @@ she will go.” “Soon?” asked the Sergeant. -“As soon as she can.” says Mrs. Yolland. +“As soon as she can,” says Mrs. Yolland. Here I stepped in again from the door. As chief of my lady’s establishment, I couldn’t allow this sort of loose talk about a servant @@ -5682,7 +5659,7 @@ dog-chain. “Weigh it in your hand, sir,” she said to the Sergeant. “We had three of these; and Rosanna has taken two of them. ‘What can you want, my dear, with a couple of dog’s chains?’ says I. ‘If I join them together -they’ll do round my box nicely,’ says she. ‘Rope’s cheapest,’ says I. +they’ll go round my box nicely,’ says she. ‘Rope’s cheapest,’ says I. ‘Chain’s surest,’ says she. ‘Who ever heard of a box corded with chain,’ says I. ‘Oh, Mrs. Yolland, don’t make objections!’ says she; ‘let me have my chains!’ A strange girl, Mr. Cuff—good as gold, and @@ -5769,7 +5746,7 @@ Sergeant Cuff stopped short in the dark, and laid his hand on my arm. “Is anything thrown into that quicksand of yours, ever thrown up on the surface again?” he asked. -“Never,” I answered. “Light or heavy whatever goes into the Shivering +“Never,” I answered. “Light or heavy, whatever goes into the Shivering Sand is sucked down, and seen no more.” “Does Rosanna Spearman know that?” @@ -6856,7 +6833,7 @@ Frizinghall. The man had looked at the address, and had said it was a roundabout way of delivering a letter directed to Cobb’s Hole, to post it at Frizinghall—and that, moreover, on a Saturday, which would prevent the letter from getting to its destination until Monday -morning, Rosanna had answered that the delivery of the letter being +morning. Rosanna had answered that the delivery of the letter being delayed till Monday was of no importance. The only thing she wished to be sure of was that the man would do what she told him. The man had promised to do it, and had driven away. Nancy had been called back to @@ -7495,7 +7472,7 @@ met her death by a dreadful end, and I don’t want your ladyship to think, now she’s gone, that I was unduly hard on her. If this had been a common case of thieving, I should have given Rosanna the benefit of the doubt just as freely as I should have given it to any of the other -servants in the house. Our experience of the Reformatory woman is, that +servants in the house. Our experience of the Reformatory women is, that when tried in service—and when kindly and judiciously treated—they prove themselves in the majority of cases to be honestly penitent, and honestly worthy of the pains taken with them. But this was not a common @@ -8344,7 +8321,7 @@ strange proceedings in which Sergeant Cuff had detected her, from the time when the Moonstone was lost, to the time when she rushed to her own destruction at the Shivering Sand. A sealed letter it had been placed in Limping Lucy’s hand, and a sealed letter it remained to me -and to everyone about the girl, her own parents included. We all +and to every one about the girl, her own parents included. We all suspected her of having been in the dead woman’s confidence; we all tried to make her speak; we all failed. Now one, and now another, of the servants—still holding to the belief that Rosanna had stolen the @@ -8552,7 +8529,7 @@ terms!—if I could have honestly earned my money. With my diary, the poor labourer (who forgives Mr. Blake for insulting her) is worthy of her hire. Nothing escaped me at the time I was visiting dear Aunt Verinder. Everything was entered (thanks to my early training) day by -day as it happened; and everything down to the smallest particular, +day as it happened; and everything, down to the smallest particular, shall be told here. My sacred regard for truth is (thank God) far above my respect for persons. It will be easy for Mr. Blake to suppress what may not prove to be sufficiently flattering in these pages to the @@ -9310,7 +9287,7 @@ was on her feet again, and back with Mr. Godfrey, in an instant. “I won’t let you—I won’t let any innocent man—be accused and disgraced through my fault. If you won’t take me before the magistrate, draw out a declaration of your innocence on paper, and I will sign it. Do as I -tell you, Godfrey, or I’ll write it to the newspapers I’ll go out, and +tell you, Godfrey, or I’ll write it to the newspapers—I’ll go out, and cry it in the streets!” We will not say this was the language of remorse—we will say it was the @@ -9408,7 +9385,7 @@ it, from the observation of her daughter. My aunt’s reply greatly surprised me. “Drusilla,” she said (if I have not already mentioned that my Christian -name is Drusilla, permit me to mention it now), “you are touching quite +name is Drusilla, permit me to mention it now), “you are touching—quite innocently, I know—on a very distressing subject.” I rose immediately. Delicacy left me but one alternative—the @@ -9529,7 +9506,7 @@ apply to me?’” Even that simple appeal—so absolutely heathenising is the influence of the world—appeared to startle my aunt. She said, “I will do what I can, Drusilla, to please you,” with a look of surprise, which was at once instructive and terrible to see. Not a moment was to -be lost. The clock on the mantel-piece informed me that I had just time +be lost. The clock on the mantelpiece informed me that I had just time to hurry home; to provide myself with a first series of selected readings (say a dozen only); and to return in time to meet the lawyer, and witness Lady Verinder’s Will. Promising faithfully to be back by @@ -9552,7 +9529,7 @@ useless, I am happy to say! I sowed the good seed, in spite of him, by throwing a second tract in at the window of the cab. The servant who answered the door—not the person with the cap-ribbons, -to my great relief, but the foot-man—informed me that the doctor had +to my great relief, but the footman—informed me that the doctor had called, and was still shut up with Lady Verinder. Mr. Bruff, the lawyer, had arrived a minute since and was waiting in the library. I was shown into the library to wait too. @@ -9613,7 +9590,7 @@ to which you allude; and I also know that a viler falsehood than that story never was told.” “Yes, yes, Miss Clack—you believe in your friend. Natural enough. Mr. -Godfrey Ablewhite, won’t find the world in general quite so easy to +Godfrey Ablewhite won’t find the world in general quite so easy to convince as a committee of charitable ladies. Appearances are dead against him. He was in the house when the Diamond was lost. And he was the first person in the house to go to London afterwards. Those are @@ -10358,20 +10335,20 @@ love with me? Suppose you were in love with some other woman?” “Suppose you discovered that woman to be utterly unworthy of you? Suppose you were quite convinced that it was a disgrace to you to waste another thought on her? Suppose the bare idea of ever marrying such a -person made your face burn, only with thinking of it.” +person made your face burn, only with thinking of it?” “Yes?” “And, suppose, in spite of all that—you couldn’t tear her from your heart? Suppose the feeling she had roused in you (in the time when you believed in her) was not a feeling to be hidden? Suppose the love this -wretch had inspired in you? Oh, how can I find words to say it in! How -can I make a _man_ understand that a feeling which horrifies me at +wretch had inspired in you——? Oh, how can I find words to say it in! +How can I make a _man_ understand that a feeling which horrifies me at myself, can be a feeling that fascinates me at the same time? It’s the breath of my life, Godfrey, and it’s the poison that kills me—both in -one! Go away! I must be out of my mind to talk as I am talking now. No! -you mustn’t leave me—you mustn’t carry away a wrong impression. I must -say what is to be said in my own defence. Mind this! _He_ doesn’t +one! Go away! I must be out of my mind to talk as I am talking now. +No! you mustn’t leave me—you mustn’t carry away a wrong impression. I +must say what is to be said in my own defence. Mind this! _He_ doesn’t know—he never will know, what I have told _you_. I will never see him—I don’t care what happens—I will never, never, never see him again! Don’t ask me his name! Don’t ask me any more! Let’s change the subject. Are @@ -10384,7 +10361,7 @@ me! For God’s sake, go away!” She turned round on a sudden, and beat her hands wildly on the back of the ottoman. Her head dropped on the cushions; and she burst out -crying. Before I had time to feel shocked, at this, I was horror-struck +crying. Before I had time to feel shocked at this, I was horror-struck by an entirely unexpected proceeding on the part of Mr. Godfrey. Will it be credited that he fell on his knees at her feet?—on _both_ knees, I solemnly declare! May modesty mention that he put his arms round her @@ -10531,10 +10508,8 @@ back this evening. We have been here alone together quite long enough.” She rose, and, in rising, looked for the first time towards the little room in which my martyrdom was going on. -“Who has drawn those curtains?” she exclaimed. - -“The room is close enough, as it is, without keeping the air out of it -in that way.” +“Who has drawn those curtains?” she exclaimed. “The room is close +enough, as it is, without keeping the air out of it in that way.” She advanced to the curtains. At the moment when she laid her hand on them—at the moment when the discovery of me appeared to be quite @@ -11075,7 +11050,7 @@ promise, and leaving me free to make some happier choice elsewhere. That is the only reason she will give, and the only answer she will make to every question that I can ask of her.” -“What have you done on your side?” I inquired. “Have you submitted.” +“What have you done on your side?” I inquired. “Have you submitted?” “Yes,” he said with the most unruffled composure, “I have submitted.” @@ -11441,7 +11416,7 @@ no ancestors. I wasn’t descended from a set of cut-throat scoundrels who lived by robbery and murder. I couldn’t point to the time when the Ablewhites hadn’t a shirt to their backs, and couldn’t sign their own names. Ha! ha! I wasn’t good enough for the Herncastles, when _I_ -married. And now, it comes to the pinch, my son isn’t good enough for +married. And now it comes to the pinch, my son isn’t good enough for _you_. I suspected it, all along. You have got the Herncastle blood in you, my young lady! I suspected it all along.” @@ -12055,7 +12030,7 @@ a woman’s face. “I owe much already to your kindness,” she said. “And I feel more deeply indebted to it now than ever. If you hear any rumours of my -marriage when you get back to London contradict them at once, on my +marriage when you get back to London, contradict them at once, on my authority.” “Have you resolved to break your engagement?” I asked. @@ -12138,7 +12113,7 @@ for you to tell him that you withdraw from your engagement without giving some reason for it.” “I shall say that I have thought it over, and that I am satisfied it -will be best for both of us if we part. +will be best for both of us if we part.” “No more than that?” @@ -12242,7 +12217,7 @@ for the moment, wondering whether my own eyes had not deceived me. The clerk, observing my bewilderment, favoured me with the result of his own observation of the stranger who was waiting downstairs. -“Here’s rather a remarkable-looking man, sir. So dark in the complexion +“He is rather a remarkable-looking man, sir. So dark in the complexion that we all set him down in the office for an Indian, or something of that sort.” @@ -12946,7 +12921,7 @@ me. But it was impossible to suspect Rachel. I left word that I would call again at six o’clock that evening. At six o’clock I was informed for the second time that Miss Verinder -was not at home. Had any message been left for me. No message had been +was not at home. Had any message been left for me? No message had been left for me. Had Miss Verinder not received my card? The servant begged my pardon—Miss Verinder _had_ received it. @@ -13378,10 +13353,10 @@ coast; and they go to bed early at Cobb’s Hole.” “Nonsense! We might get there in half an hour.” “_You_ might, sir. And when you did get there, you would find the door -locked. He pointed to a light, glimmering below us; and, at the same +locked.” He pointed to a light, glimmering below us; and, at the same moment, I heard through the stillness of the evening the bubbling of a -stream. ‘There’s the Farm, Mr. Franklin! Make yourself comfortable for -tonight, and come to me tomorrow morning if you’ll be so kind?’” +stream. “There’s the Farm, Mr. Franklin! Make yourself comfortable for +tonight, and come to me tomorrow morning—if you’ll be so kind?” “You will go with me to the fisherman’s cottage?” @@ -14045,7 +14020,7 @@ was nothing wrong with it then.’ “‘I wouldn’t say a word to help Mr. Seegrave for anything that could be offered to me!’ -“She went to her work, and I went to mine.” +“She went to her work, and I went to mine. “My work, sir, was to make your bed, and to put your room tidy. It was the happiest hour I had in the whole day. I used to kiss the pillow on @@ -14151,9 +14126,9 @@ in which Mr. Seegrave had treated her. He had hinted, beyond the possibility of mistaking him, that he suspected her of being the thief. We were all equally astonished at hearing this, and we all asked, Why? -“‘Because the Diamond was in Miss Rachel’s sitting-room,” Penelope -answered. “And because I was the last person in the sitting-room at -night!” +“‘Because the Diamond was in Miss Rachel’s sitting-room,’ Penelope +answered. ‘And because I was the last person in the sitting-room at +night!’ “Almost before the words had left her lips, I remembered that another person had been in the sitting-room later than Penelope. That person @@ -14502,9 +14477,9 @@ as I dared when I spoke to you in the library. You had not turned your back on me then. You had not started away from me as if I had got the plague. I tried to provoke myself into feeling angry with you, and to rouse up my courage in that way. No! I couldn’t feel anything but the -misery and the mortification of it. You’re a plain girl; you have got a +misery and the mortification of it. ‘You’re a plain girl; you have got a crooked shoulder; you’re only a housemaid—what do you mean by -attempting to speak to Me?” You never uttered a word of that, Mr. +attempting to speak to Me?’ You never uttered a word of that, Mr. Franklin; but you said it all to me, nevertheless! Is such madness as this to be accounted for? No. There is nothing to be done but to confess it, and let it be. @@ -15150,7 +15125,7 @@ to me. She trembled; she stood irresolute. I could resist it no longer—I caught her in my arms, and covered her face with kisses. There was a moment when I thought the kisses were returned; a moment -when it seemed as if she, too might have forgotten. Almost before the +when it seemed as if she, too, might have forgotten. Almost before the idea could shape itself in my mind, her first voluntary action made me feel that she remembered. With a cry which was like a cry of horror—with a strength which I doubt if I could have resisted if I had @@ -15225,7 +15200,7 @@ trying that experiment, I moved round so as to place myself in front of her. “I have a question to ask you,” I said. “It obliges me to refer again -to a painful subject. Did Rosanna Spearman show you the nightgown. Yes, +to a painful subject. Did Rosanna Spearman show you the nightgown? Yes, or No?” She started to her feet; and walked close up to me of her own accord. @@ -15929,7 +15904,7 @@ Early the next morning, I set forth for the little town of Dorking—the place of Sergeant Cuff’s retirement, as indicated to me by Betteredge. Inquiring at the hotel, I received the necessary directions for finding -the Sergeant’s cottage. It was approached by a quiet bye-road, a little +the Sergeant’s cottage. It was approached by a quiet by-road, a little way out of the town, and it stood snugly in the middle of its own plot of garden ground, protected by a good brick wall at the back and the sides, and by a high quickset hedge in front. The gate, ornamented at @@ -16325,7 +16300,7 @@ dinner now, wasn’t it?” On repeating the phrase, he seemed to feel hardly as certain of having prevented me from suspecting his lapse of memory, as he had felt on the -first occasion. The wistful look clouded his face again: and, after +first occasion. The wistful look clouded his face again; and, after apparently designing to accompany me to the street door, he suddenly changed his mind, rang the bell for the servant, and remained in the drawing-room. @@ -16793,7 +16768,7 @@ part of it. “Do you mind resting a little, Mr. Blake?” he asked. “I am not what I was—and some things shake me.” -I agreed of course. He led the way through the gap to a patch of turf +I agreed, of course. He led the way through the gap to a patch of turf on the heathy ground, screened by bushes and dwarf trees on the side nearest to the road, and commanding in the opposite direction a grandly desolate view over the broad brown wilderness of the moor. The clouds @@ -17569,7 +17544,7 @@ consult his experience, we may see the matter under a new light. For the present, let us return to our experiment with the opium. We have decided that you leave off the habit of smoking from this moment.” -“From this moment?” +“From this moment.” “That is the first step. The next step is to reproduce, as nearly as we can, the domestic circumstances which surrounded you last year.” @@ -17648,7 +17623,7 @@ it like a last gleam of sunshine, falling on the evening of a long and clouded day.” We parted. It was then the fifteenth of June. The events of the next -ten days—everyone of them more or less directly connected with the +ten days—every one of them more or less directly connected with the experiment of which I was the passive object—are all placed on record, exactly as they happened, in the Journal habitually kept by Mr. Candy’s assistant. In the pages of Ezra Jennings nothing is concealed, and @@ -18037,7 +18012,7 @@ Am I responsible for Cupid’s wing?” I made another concession, and Betteredge made another note. “As to the second corridor,” he went on. “There having been nothing in -it, last year, but the doors of the rooms (to everyone of which I can +it, last year, but the doors of the rooms (to every one of which I can swear, if necessary), my mind is easy, I admit, respecting that part of the house only. But, as to Mr. Franklin’s bedroom (if _that_ is to be put back to what it was before), I want to know who is responsible for @@ -18156,7 +18131,7 @@ Betteredge, attired for the occasion in a fisherman’s red cap, and an apron of green baize, met us in the outer hall. The moment he saw me, he pulled out the pocket-book and pencil, and obstinately insisted on taking notes of everything that I said to him. Look where we might, we -found, as Mr. Blake had foretold that the work was advancing as rapidly +found, as Mr. Blake had foretold, that the work was advancing as rapidly and as intelligently as it was possible to desire. But there was still much to be done in the inner hall, and in Miss Verinder’s room. It seemed doubtful whether the house would be ready for us before the end @@ -18587,7 +18562,7 @@ The advent of the explosion? No: only the advent of Betteredge. “I beg your pardon, Mr. Jennings,” said Betteredge, in his most elaborately confidential manner. “Mr. Franklin wishes to know where you are. Being under your orders to deceive him, in respect to the presence -of my young lady in the house, I have said I don’t know. That you will +of my young lady in the house, I have said I don’t know. That, you will please to observe, was a lie. Having one foot already in the grave, sir, the fewer lies you expect me to tell, the more I shall be indebted to you, when my conscience pricks me and my time comes.” @@ -19076,7 +19051,7 @@ The next event was decisive. He let the mock Diamond drop out of his hand. It fell on the floor, before the doorway—plainly visible to him, and to -everyone. He made no effort to pick it up: he looked down at it +every one. He made no effort to pick it up: he looked down at it vacantly, and, as he looked, his head sank on his breast. He staggered—roused himself for an instant—walked back unsteadily to the sofa—and sat down on it. He made a last effort; he tried to rise, and @@ -19259,8 +19234,8 @@ themselves; they have all gone to London by the ten o’clock train. My brief dream of happiness is over. I have awakened again to the realities of my friendless and lonely life. -I dare not trust myself to write down, the kind words that have been -said to me especially by Miss Verinder and Mr. Blake. Besides, it is +I dare not trust myself to write down the kind words that have been +said to me—especially by Miss Verinder and Mr. Blake. Besides, it is needless. Those words will come back to me in my solitary hours, and will help me through what is left of the end of my life. Mr. Blake is to write, and tell me what happens in London. Miss Verinder is to @@ -19377,7 +19352,7 @@ Did you notice my boy—on the box, there?” Mr. Bruff laughed. “They call the poor little wretch ‘Gooseberry’ at the office,” he said. “I employ him to go on errands—and I only wish my -clerks who have nick-named him were as thoroughly to be depended on as +clerks who have nicknamed him were as thoroughly to be depended on as he is. Gooseberry is one of the sharpest boys in London, Mr. Blake, in spite of his eyes.” @@ -20528,9 +20503,9 @@ raise the three thousand pounds—and a year is a long time. Mr. Luker drew out the necessary documents on the spot. When they were signed, he gave Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite two cheques. One, dated June 23rd, for three hundred pounds. Another, dated a week on, for the -remaining balance seventeen hundred pounds. +remaining balance—seventeen hundred pounds. -How the Moonstone was trusted to the keeping of Mr Luker’s bankers, and +How the Moonstone was trusted to the keeping of Mr. Luker’s bankers, and how the Indians treated Mr. Luker and Mr. Godfrey (after that had been done) you know already. @@ -20756,7 +20731,7 @@ chance of reading that domestic bit about the child which I had marked on the day of Mr. Franklin’s marriage! I read those miraculous words with an emphasis which did them justice, and then I looked him severely in the face. “_Now_, sir, do you believe in _Robinson Crusoe_?” I -asked, with a solemnity, suitable to the occasion. +asked, with a solemnity suitable to the occasion. “Betteredge!” says Mr. Franklin, with equal solemnity, “I’m convinced at last.” He shook hands with me—and I felt that I had converted him. @@ -21025,353 +21000,4 @@ Who can tell? 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