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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. -</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: The Moonstone</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Wilkie Collins</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: August, 1994 [eBook #155]<br /> -[Most recently updated: September 9, 2022]</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: John Hamm and David Widger</div> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MOONSTONE ***</div> - +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 155 ***</div> <div class="fig" style="width:70%;"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="cover" /> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="cover"> </div> <h1>THE MOONSTONE</h1> @@ -110,18 +90,18 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. <h2 class="no-break">by Wilkie Collins</h2> -<hr /> +<hr > <h3>Contents</h3> -<table summary="" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto"> +<table style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto"> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap01"><b>PROLOGUE</b></a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#chap01"><b>PROLOGUE</b></a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap02"><b>THE STORY</b></a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#chap02"><b>THE STORY</b></a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -217,7 +197,7 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap26">CHAPTER XXIII</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#chap26">CHAPTER XXIII</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -257,7 +237,7 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap36">CHAPTER VIII</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#chap36">CHAPTER VIII</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -273,7 +253,7 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap40">CHAPTER III</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#chap40">CHAPTER III</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -317,15 +297,15 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap51">CHAPTER X</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#chap51">CHAPTER X</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap52"><b>FOURTH NARRATIVE</b><br/><br/></a></td> +<td> <a href="#chap52"><b>FOURTH NARRATIVE</b><br><br></a></td> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap53"><b>FIFTH NARRATIVE</b><br/><br/></a></td> +<td> <a href="#chap53"><b>FIFTH NARRATIVE</b><br><br></a></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -349,15 +329,15 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap59">V</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#chap59">V</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap60"><b>SEVENTH NARRATIVE</b><br/><br/></a></td> +<td> <a href="#chap60"><b>SEVENTH NARRATIVE</b><br><br></a></td> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap61"><b>EIGHTH NARRATIVE</b><br/><br/></a></td> +<td> <a href="#chap61"><b>EIGHTH NARRATIVE</b><br><br></a></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -378,11 +358,11 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. </table> -<hr /> +<hr > <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap01"></a>PROLOGUE</h3> +<h3><a id="chap01"></a>PROLOGUE</h3> <h4> THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799): </h4> @@ -680,13 +660,13 @@ live to regret taking it from him, if he gives the Diamond away. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap02"></a>THE STORY</h3> +<h3><a id="chap02"></a>THE STORY</h3> </div><!--end chapter--> <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap03"></a>FIRST PERIOD</h3> +<h3><a id="chap03"></a>FIRST PERIOD</h3> <h3> THE LOSS OF THE DIAMOND (1848) </h3> @@ -695,7 +675,7 @@ live to regret taking it from him, if he gives the Diamond away. Julia, Lady Verinder.</i> </p> -<h3><a name="chap04"></a>CHAPTER I</h3> +<h3><a id="chap04"></a>CHAPTER I</h3> <p> In the first part of <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, at page one hundred and @@ -811,7 +791,7 @@ over again, with my best respects to you. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap05"></a>CHAPTER II</h3> +<h3><a id="chap05"></a>CHAPTER II</h3> <p> I spoke of my lady a line or two back. Now the Diamond could never have been in @@ -999,7 +979,7 @@ time. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap06"></a>CHAPTER III</h3> +<h3><a id="chap06"></a>CHAPTER III</h3> <p> The question of how I am to start the story properly I have tried to settle in @@ -1346,7 +1326,7 @@ Moonstone. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap07"></a>CHAPTER IV</h3> +<h3><a id="chap07"></a>CHAPTER IV</h3> <p> I am truly sorry to detain you over me and my beehive chair. A sleepy old man, @@ -1756,7 +1736,7 @@ for Rosanna Spearman as I was, when I found out the truth. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap08"></a>CHAPTER V</h3> +<h3><a id="chap08"></a>CHAPTER V</h3> <p> The first thing I did, after we were left together alone, was to make a third @@ -1894,7 +1874,7 @@ touched the Colonel with a pair of tongs!” </p> <p> -“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 Herncastle and his Diamond, @@ -2137,7 +2117,7 @@ What did I want? I didn’t tell <i>him</i>; but I’ll tell <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap09"></a>CHAPTER VI</h3> +<h3><a id="chap09"></a>CHAPTER VI</h3> <p> Keeping my private sentiments to myself, I respectfully requested Mr. Franklin @@ -2615,7 +2595,7 @@ discovery—that these puzzling shifts and 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 +one nation 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 state of perpetual @@ -2714,7 +2694,7 @@ woke up from a dream. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap10"></a>CHAPTER VII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap10"></a>CHAPTER VII</h3> <p> While I was in this bewildered frame of mind, sorely needing a little quiet @@ -2891,7 +2871,7 @@ whereabouts of the Diamond that night. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap11"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap11"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h3> <p> Here, for one moment, I find it necessary to call a halt. @@ -3362,7 +3342,7 @@ thick of the story. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap12"></a>CHAPTER IX</h3> +<h3><a id="chap12"></a>CHAPTER IX</h3> <p> June twenty-first, the day of the birthday, was cloudy and unsettled at @@ -3553,8 +3533,8 @@ 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 <i>me</i> 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 waists, and, looking compassionately -backwards and forwards between the Diamond and me, said, “Carbon +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, after all!” </p> @@ -3680,7 +3660,7 @@ Ablewhite. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap13"></a>CHAPTER X</h3> +<h3><a id="chap13"></a>CHAPTER X</h3> <p> One on the top of the other the rest of the company followed the Ablewhites, @@ -3903,7 +3883,7 @@ 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 nothing, and that the proper way to breed bulls was to +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 and salad time, about the spread of democracy in England, burst out as follows: @@ -3924,7 +3904,7 @@ 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 speaking, groping in the dark after +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, and now, for the first time, he knew what it meant. In this way, @@ -3942,7 +3922,7 @@ gentlemen over their wine. <p class="p2"> 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. Mr. Franklin and I +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! @@ -4331,7 +4311,7 @@ The next thing to tell is the story of the night. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XI</h3> +<h3><a id="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XI</h3> <p> When the last of the guests had driven away, I went back into the inner hall @@ -4512,7 +4492,7 @@ see.” 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 +her. There also stood the two doors of the Indian cabinet, wide open. One of the drawers inside was pulled out as far as it would go. </p> @@ -4771,7 +4751,7 @@ wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel’s drawer? </p> <p> -Ten minutes later, to our infinite relief; Superintendent Seegrave arrived at +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 hopeless, before the investigation had @@ -4814,7 +4794,7 @@ resolute eye, and he cowed them with his military voice. </p> <p> -“Now, then, you women, go downstairs again, everyone of you; I +“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 @@ -4924,7 +4904,7 @@ lasted but for a short time, and, judging by what 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 +again, before her mother 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 a few @@ -5338,7 +5318,7 @@ lifted a little. How, and with what result, you shall presently see. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XII</h3> <p> The Thursday night passed, and nothing happened. With the Friday morning came @@ -5761,7 +5741,7 @@ had not spoken, or as if she had not heard him. </p> <p> -“Do your duty by yourself—and don’t allow Mr Franklin Blake +“Do your duty by yourself—and don’t allow Mr. Franklin Blake to help you!” </p> @@ -5872,7 +5852,7 @@ was Miss Verinder’s maid. <p> “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 up. @@ -6051,7 +6031,7 @@ are not all put together yet.” <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XIII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XIII</h3> <p> I found my lady in her own sitting room. She started and looked annoyed when I @@ -6254,7 +6234,7 @@ cousin 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 to follow their lead, before +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. </p> @@ -6439,7 +6419,7 @@ look at the roses.” <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XIV</h3> +<h3><a id="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XIV</h3> <p> The nearest way to the garden, on going out of my lady’s sitting-room, @@ -6946,7 +6926,7 @@ for the Shivering Sand. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XV</h3> +<h3><a id="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XV</h3> <p> The Sergeant remained silent, thinking his own thoughts, till we entered the @@ -7293,7 +7273,7 @@ my duty to have remembered, 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 went on +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. </p> @@ -7325,7 +7305,7 @@ go.” </p> <p> -“As soon as she can.” says Mrs. Yolland. +“As soon as she can,” says Mrs. Yolland. </p> <p> @@ -7448,7 +7428,7 @@ the rubbish, and came up out of it, this time, with a 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. +join them together 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 @@ -7578,7 +7558,7 @@ surface again?” he asked. </p> <p> -“Never,” I answered. “Light or heavy whatever goes into the +“Never,” I answered. “Light or heavy, whatever goes into the Shivering Sand is sucked down, and seen no more.” </p> @@ -7716,7 +7696,7 @@ in. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XVI</h3> +<h3><a id="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XVI</h3> <p> We found my lady with no light in the room but the reading-lamp. The shade was @@ -8241,7 +8221,7 @@ condemned himself to pass the night. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XVII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XVII</h3> <p> Nothing happened in the night; and (I am happy to add) no attempt at @@ -8694,7 +8674,7 @@ Frizinghall. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XVIII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XVIII</h3> <p> Going down to the front door, I met the Sergeant on the steps. @@ -9069,7 +9049,7 @@ Nancy had heard her ask the man to post the letter when he got back to 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 +letter from getting to its destination until Monday 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 @@ -9104,7 +9084,7 @@ new light thrown on the missing girl. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XIX</h3> +<h3><a id="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XIX</h3> <p> The news of Rosanna’s disappearance had, as it appeared, spread among the @@ -9389,7 +9369,7 @@ were waiting for us at the house. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XX</h3> +<h3><a id="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XX</h3> <p> Those in front had spread the news before us. We found the servants in a state @@ -9559,7 +9539,7 @@ my mistress was strung up to hear the worst he could say to her. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXI</h3> +<h3><a id="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXI</h3> <p> The first words, when we had taken our seats, were spoken by my lady. @@ -9902,7 +9882,7 @@ 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 when tried in service—and +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 case of thieving. It was a case—in my @@ -10078,7 +10058,7 @@ off to Frizinghall. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXII</h3> <p> My mistress having left us, I had leisure to think of Sergeant Cuff. I found @@ -10560,7 +10540,7 @@ ourselves on both sides a few pages further on! <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXIII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXIII</h3> <p> I had kept the pony-chaise ready, in case Mr. Franklin persisted in leaving us @@ -11003,7 +10983,7 @@ about the 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 suspected her of +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 Diamond and had hidden @@ -11168,7 +11148,7 @@ THE END OF THE FIRST PERIOD. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap27"></a>SECOND PERIOD.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap27"></a>SECOND PERIOD.</h3> <h3> THE DISCOVERY OF THE TRUTH. (1848-1849.) </h3> @@ -11176,13 +11156,13 @@ THE END OF THE FIRST PERIOD. <i>The Events related in several Narratives.</i> </p> -<h3><a name="chap28"></a>FIRST NARRATIVE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap28"></a>FIRST NARRATIVE.</h3> <p class="center"> <i>Contributed by Miss Clack; niece of the late Sir John Verinder</i> </p> -<h3><a name="chap29"></a>CHAPTER I</h3> +<h3><a id="chap29"></a>CHAPTER I</h3> <p> I am indebted to my dear parents (both now in heaven) for having had habits of @@ -11243,7 +11223,7 @@ 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, shall be told here. My sacred +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 person chiefly concerned in them. He has purchased my @@ -11690,7 +11670,7 @@ the door, and announced Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap30"></a>CHAPTER II</h3> +<h3><a id="chap30"></a>CHAPTER II</h3> <p> Mr. Godfrey followed the announcement of his name—as Mr. Godfrey does @@ -12209,7 +12189,7 @@ 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 cry it +Godfrey, or I’ll write it to the newspapers—I’ll go out, and cry it in the streets!” </p> @@ -12338,7 +12318,7 @@ My aunt’s reply greatly surprised me. <p> “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 innocently, I know—on a very distressing subject.” +touching—quite innocently, I know—on a very distressing subject.” </p> <p> @@ -12388,7 +12368,7 @@ grave—dawned on my mind. My aunt’s secret was a secret no longer. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap31"></a>CHAPTER III</h3> +<h3><a id="chap31"></a>CHAPTER III</h3> <p> Consideration for poor Lady Verinder forbade me even to hint that I had guessed @@ -12488,7 +12468,7 @@ places, aunt. And marked in pencil where you are to stop and ask yourself, 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 +a moment was to 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 five @@ -12516,7 +12496,7 @@ him, by throwing a second tract in at the window of the cab. <p class="p2"> 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 called, +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. @@ -12598,7 +12578,7 @@ that story never was told.” <p> “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 +Mr. 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 ugly circumstances, @@ -12898,7 +12878,7 @@ spiritual atmosphere feels clear once more. Dear friends, we may go on again. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap32"></a>CHAPTER IV</h3> +<h3><a id="chap32"></a>CHAPTER IV</h3> <p> The signing of the Will was a much shorter matter than I had anticipated. It @@ -13276,7 +13256,7 @@ that spoke them was Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite’s. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap33"></a>CHAPTER V</h3> +<h3><a id="chap33"></a>CHAPTER V</h3> <p> My hand dropped from the curtain. But don’t suppose—oh, don’t @@ -13527,7 +13507,7 @@ 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.” +burn, only with thinking of it?” </p> <p> @@ -13538,7 +13518,7 @@ burn, only with thinking of it.” “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 +wretch had inspired in you——? Oh, how can I find words to say it in! How can I make a <i>man</i> 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 @@ -13559,7 +13539,7 @@ notice me! Don’t pity me! For God’s sake, go away!” <p> 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 by an entirely +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 <i>both</i> knees, I solemnly declare! May modesty mention that he put his arms round her next? And may reluctant @@ -13701,7 +13681,7 @@ for me?”* </p> <p class="footnote"> -* See Betteredge’s Narrative, chapter viii. +* See Betteredge’s Narrative, <a href="#chap36">chapter viii</a>. </p> <p> @@ -13766,9 +13746,6 @@ which my martyrdom was going on. <p> “Who has drawn those curtains?” she exclaimed. -</p> - -<p> “The room is close enough, as it is, without keeping the air out of it in that way.” </p> @@ -13824,7 +13801,7 @@ she had also died without giving me my little legacy. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap34"></a>CHAPTER VI</h3> +<h3><a id="chap34"></a>CHAPTER VI</h3> <p> (1.) “Miss Clack presents her compliments to Mr. Franklin Blake; and, in @@ -13912,7 +13889,7 @@ Franklin Blake.” <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap35"></a>CHAPTER VII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap35"></a>CHAPTER VII</h3> <p> The foregoing correspondence will sufficiently explain why no choice is left to @@ -14475,7 +14452,7 @@ ask of her.” <p> “What have you done on your side?” I inquired. “Have you -submitted.” +submitted?” </p> <p> @@ -14508,7 +14485,7 @@ answer for nothing more. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap36"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap36"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h3> <p> “I have lost a beautiful girl, an excellent social position, and a @@ -14970,7 +14947,7 @@ 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>I</i> married. And now, it comes to the pinch, my son isn’t good +<i>I</i> married. And now it comes to the pinch, my son isn’t good enough for <i>you</i>. I suspected it, all along. You have got the Herncastle blood in you, my young lady! I suspected it all along.” </p> @@ -15359,7 +15336,7 @@ I was left alone in the room. Reviled by them all, deserted by them all, I was left alone in the room. </p> -<hr class="small" /> +<hr class="small" > <p> Is there more to be added to this plain statement of facts—to this @@ -15376,13 +15353,13 @@ her as a legacy by my will. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap37"></a>SECOND NARRATIVE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap37"></a>SECOND NARRATIVE.</h3> <p class="center"> <i>Contributed by Mathew Bruff, Solicitor, of Gray’s Inn Square.</i> </p> -<h3><a name="chap38"></a>CHAPTER I</h3> +<h3><a id="chap38"></a>CHAPTER I</h3> <p> My fair friend, Miss Clack, having laid down the pen, there are two reasons for @@ -15810,7 +15787,7 @@ face. <p> “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.” </p> @@ -15926,7 +15903,7 @@ without giving some reason for it.” <p> “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. +be best for both of us if we part.” </p> <p> @@ -16035,7 +16012,7 @@ like old friends, on either side. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap39"></a>CHAPTER II</h3> +<h3><a id="chap39"></a>CHAPTER II</h3> <p> The next thing I have to do, is to present such additional information as I @@ -16070,7 +16047,7 @@ of the stranger who was waiting downstairs. </p> <p> -“Here’s rather a remarkable-looking man, sir. So dark in the +“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.” </p> @@ -16309,7 +16286,7 @@ occasion, one and the same thing. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap40"></a>CHAPTER III</h3> +<h3><a id="chap40"></a>CHAPTER III</h3> <p> The prominent personage among the guests at the dinner party I found to be Mr. @@ -16849,13 +16826,13 @@ writer who follows me next. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap41"></a>THIRD NARRATIVE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap41"></a>THIRD NARRATIVE.</h3> <p class="center"> <i>Contributed by Franklin Blake.</i> </p> -<h3><a name="chap42"></a>CHAPTER I</h3> +<h3><a id="chap42"></a>CHAPTER I</h3> <p> In the spring of the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine I was wandering in @@ -16979,7 +16956,7 @@ o’clock that evening. <p> 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 left for me. +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 <i>had</i> received it. </p> @@ -17129,7 +17106,7 @@ trust myself to speak to him. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap43"></a>CHAPTER II</h3> +<h3><a id="chap43"></a>CHAPTER II</h3> <p> “Betteredge!” I said, pointing to the well-remembered book on his @@ -17605,11 +17582,11 @@ coast; and they go to bed early at Cobb’s Hole.” <p> “<i>You</i> 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 +door 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?’” +“There’s the Farm, Mr. Franklin! Make yourself comfortable for +tonight, and come to me tomorrow morning—if you’ll be so +kind?” </p> <p> @@ -17636,7 +17613,7 @@ We descended the path that led to the Farm. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap44"></a>CHAPTER III</h3> +<h3><a id="chap44"></a>CHAPTER III</h3> <p> I have only the most indistinct recollection of what happened at @@ -18149,7 +18126,7 @@ discovered Myself as the Thief. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap45"></a>CHAPTER IV</h3> +<h3><a id="chap45"></a>CHAPTER IV</h3> <p> I have not a word to say about my own sensations. @@ -18519,7 +18496,7 @@ that could be offered to me!’ </p> <p> -“She went to her work, and I went to mine.” +“She went to her work, and I went to mine. </p> <p> @@ -18656,8 +18633,8 @@ astonished at hearing this, and we all asked, Why? <p> “‘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!” +sitting-room,’ Penelope answered. ‘And because I was the last +person in the sitting-room at night!’ </p> <p> @@ -18947,7 +18924,7 @@ with the piebald hair. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap46"></a>CHAPTER V</h3> +<h3><a id="chap46"></a>CHAPTER V</h3> <p> Having told me the name of Mr. Candy’s assistant, Betteredge appeared to @@ -19104,8 +19081,8 @@ 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 crooked shoulder; you’re only a -housemaid—what do you mean by attempting to speak to Me?” You never +‘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. 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. @@ -19378,7 +19355,7 @@ toilsome journey from the darkness to the light. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap47"></a>CHAPTER VI</h3> +<h3><a id="chap47"></a>CHAPTER VI</h3> <p> I walked to the railway station accompanied, it is needless to say, by Gabriel @@ -19933,7 +19910,7 @@ After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap48"></a>CHAPTER VII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap48"></a>CHAPTER VII</h3> <p> At the moment when I showed myself in the doorway, Rachel rose from the piano. @@ -19966,7 +19943,7 @@ caught her in my arms, and covered her face with kisses. <p> 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 idea could shape +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 tried—she thrust me back from her. I @@ -20070,7 +20047,7 @@ experiment, I moved round so as to place myself in front of her. <p> “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. +refer again to a painful subject. Did Rosanna Spearman show you the nightgown? Yes, or No?” </p> @@ -20878,7 +20855,7 @@ again. I saw her, and heard her, no more. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap49"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h3> +<h3><a id="chap49"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h3> <p> Late that evening, I was surprised at my lodgings by a visit from Mr. Bruff. @@ -21126,7 +21103,7 @@ place of Sergeant Cuff’s retirement, as indicated to me by Betteredge. <p> 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 way +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 the upper part by @@ -21628,7 +21605,7 @@ pleasant dinner now, wasn’t it?” <p> 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 apparently +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. </p> @@ -21659,7 +21636,7 @@ I turned round, and found myself face to face with Ezra Jennings. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap50"></a>CHAPTER IX</h3> +<h3><a id="chap50"></a>CHAPTER IX</h3> <p> The doctor’s pretty housemaid stood waiting for me, with the street door @@ -22229,7 +22206,7 @@ not what I was—and some things shake me.” </p> <p> -I agreed of course. He led the way through the gap to a patch of turf on the +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 had gathered, within the last @@ -22464,7 +22441,7 @@ The man on the high road hailed him again. He hurried away, and left me. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap51"></a>CHAPTER X</h3> +<h3><a id="chap51"></a>CHAPTER X</h3> <p> How the interval of suspense in which I was now condemned might have affected @@ -23285,7 +23262,7 @@ you leave off the habit of smoking from this moment.” </p> <p> -“From this moment?” +“From this moment.” </p> <p> @@ -23408,7 +23385,7 @@ clouded day.” <p class="p2"> 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 +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 nothing is @@ -23420,7 +23397,7 @@ how it ended. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap52"></a>FOURTH NARRATIVE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap52"></a>FOURTH NARRATIVE.</h3> <p class="center"> <i>Extracted from the Journal of Ezra Jennings.</i> @@ -23935,7 +23912,7 @@ I made another concession, and Betteredge made another note. <p> “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 +nothing in 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 <i>that</i> is to be put back to what it was before), I want to know who is responsible for keeping @@ -24081,7 +24058,7 @@ 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 and as intelligently as it was +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 of the week. @@ -24390,7 +24367,7 @@ Betteredge has just come in, to say that Mr. Blake has asked for me. I must lay down my pen for the present. </p> -<hr class="small" /> +<hr class="small" > <p> Seven o’clock.—We have been all over the refurnished rooms and @@ -24415,7 +24392,7 @@ topics, I shall have done all that it is in my power to do, before the time comes for giving him the second dose. </p> -<hr class="small" /> +<hr class="small" > <p> Half-past eight.—I have only this moment found an opportunity of @@ -24458,7 +24435,7 @@ is therefore imperatively required, this time, to repeat the results which the smaller quantity produced, last year. </p> -<hr class="small" /> +<hr class="small" > <p> Ten o’clock.—The witnesses, or the company (which shall I call @@ -24675,7 +24652,7 @@ 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 please +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.” @@ -24787,7 +24764,7 @@ My watch informs me that it is close on eleven o’clock. I must shut up these leaves once more. </p> -<hr class="small" /> +<hr class="small" > <p> Two o’clock A.M.—The experiment has been tried. With what result, I @@ -25362,7 +25339,7 @@ The next event was decisive. He let the mock Diamond drop out of his hand. <p> 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 vacantly, and, +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 sank back. His head fell on @@ -25596,7 +25573,7 @@ her face. “You would have done it,” she whispered, “in my place!” </p> -<hr class="small" /> +<hr class="small" > <p> It is just eight o’clock. He is beginning to move for the first time. @@ -25615,7 +25592,7 @@ Shall I leave them together? Yes! </p> -<hr class="small" /> +<hr class="small" > <p> Eleven o’clock.—The house is empty again. They have arranged it @@ -25625,8 +25602,8 @@ my friendless and lonely life. </p> <p> -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 +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 return to Yorkshire in the autumn (for her @@ -25650,7 +25627,7 @@ happy time. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap53"></a>FIFTH NARRATIVE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap53"></a>FIFTH NARRATIVE.</h3> <p class="center"> <i>The Story resumed by Franklin Blake.</i> @@ -25778,7 +25755,7 @@ time. Did you notice my boy—on the box, there?” <p> 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 +go on errands—and I only wish my 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.” </p> @@ -26853,13 +26830,13 @@ GODFREY ABLEWHITE! <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap54"></a>SIXTH NARRATIVE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap54"></a>SIXTH NARRATIVE.</h3> <p class="center"> <i>Contributed by Sergeant Cuff.</i> </p> -<h4><a name="chap55"></a>I</h4> +<h4><a id="chap55"></a>I</h4> <p> Dorking, Surrey, July 30th, 1849. To Franklin Blake, Esq. Sir,—I beg to @@ -26890,7 +26867,7 @@ Ablewhite, before, during and after the time, when you and he met as guests at the late Lady Verinder’s country house. </p> -<h4><a name="chap56"></a>II</h4> +<h4><a id="chap56"></a>II</h4> <p> As to your cousin’s death, then, first. @@ -27026,7 +27003,7 @@ proceedings before, during, and after the time, when you and he met at the late Lady Verinder’s house. </p> -<h4><a name="chap57"></a>III</h4> +<h4><a id="chap57"></a>III</h4> <p> With regard to the subject now in hand, I may state, at the outset, that Mr. @@ -27161,7 +27138,7 @@ of it. We have carefully sifted the statement he has addressed to us; and here it is at your service. </p> -<h4><a name="chap58"></a>IV</h4> +<h4><a id="chap58"></a>IV</h4> <p> Late on the evening of Friday, the twenty-third of June (’forty-eight), @@ -27278,7 +27255,7 @@ the Diamond, he might do so with perfect impunity. The Moonstone stood between him and ruin. He put the Moonstone into his pocket. </p> -<h4><a name="chap59"></a>V</h4> +<h4><a id="chap59"></a>V</h4> <p> This was the story told by your cousin (under pressure of necessity) to Mr. @@ -27354,7 +27331,7 @@ hundred pounds. </p> <p> -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. </p> @@ -27435,7 +27412,7 @@ chapters viii. to xiii. <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="chap60"></a>SEVENTH NARRATIVE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap60"></a>SEVENTH NARRATIVE.</h3> <p class="center"> <i>In a Letter from Mr. Candy.</i> @@ -27546,7 +27523,7 @@ Franklin Blake, truly yours, THOMAS CANDY. </p> -<h3><a name="chap61"></a>EIGHTH NARRATIVE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap61"></a>EIGHTH NARRATIVE.</h3> <p class="center"> <i>Contributed by Gabriel Betteredge.</i> @@ -27649,7 +27626,7 @@ 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. “<i>Now</i>, sir, do you believe in <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>?” I -asked, with a solemnity, suitable to the occasion. +asked, with a solemnity suitable to the occasion. </p> <p> @@ -27671,11 +27648,11 @@ When this is said, all is said. Ladies and gentlemen, I make my bow, and shut up the story. </p> -<h3><a name="chap62"></a>EPILOGUE.</h3> +<h3><a id="chap62"></a>EPILOGUE.</h3> <h4> THE FINDING OF THE DIAMOND. </h4> -<h4><a name="chap63"></a>I</h4> +<h4><a id="chap63"></a>I</h4> <h4> THE STATEMENT OF SERGEANT CUFF’S MAN. (1849.) </h4> @@ -27718,7 +27695,7 @@ my connection with the matter came to an end. I have heard nothing more of it since that time. </p> -<h4><a name="chap64"></a>II</h4> +<h4><a id="chap64"></a>II</h4> <h4> THE STATEMENT OF THE CAPTAIN. (1849.) </h4> @@ -27782,7 +27759,7 @@ Since that time, nothing has been heard to my knowledge of the three Hindoos. I have no more to add to what is here written. </p> -<h4><a name="chap65"></a>III</h4> +<h4><a id="chap65"></a>III</h4> <h4> THE STATEMENT OF MR. MURTHWAITE. (1850.) </h4> @@ -27970,450 +27947,6 @@ tell? </div><!--end chapter--> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MOONSTONE ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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