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diff --git a/30020-h/30020-h.htm b/30020-h/30020-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb92b63 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/30020-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,340 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> + +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> + <title> + The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Matsuyama Mirror, by Mrs. T. H. James. + </title> + + <style type="text/css"> + +/*<![CDATA[*/ + + p { margin-top: .75em; + text-align: justify; font-size: 200%; + margin-bottom: .75em; + } + h2 { + text-align: center; /* all headings centered */ + clear: both; + } + hr { width: 33%; + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 2em; + margin-left: auto; + margin-right: auto; + clear: both; + } + + body{margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; + } + + .box { width: 600px; + margin: 0 auto; + text-align: center; + padding: 2em; + border-style: double; } + + .center {text-align: center;} + .smcap {font-variant: small-caps;} + + .figcenter {margin: auto; text-align: center;} + + .figleft {float: left; clear: left; margin-left: 0; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: + 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 0; text-align: center;} + + /*]]>*/ + + </style> + </head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30020 ***</div> + +<div class="box"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 361px;"> +<img src="images/img001.jpg" width="361" height="550" alt="cover" title="" /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 95%;" /> + +<p class="center">製 複 許 不 録 登 権 作 著</p> + +<h2>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.</h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 376px;"> +<img src="images/img002.jpg" width="376" height="450" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 95%;" /> +<p class="center"><strong>THE</strong><br /> +<strong>MATSUYAMA</strong><br /> +<strong>MIRROR.</strong></p> +<p> </p> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 113px; margin-top: -8em;"> +<img src="images/img003.jpg" width="113" height="200" alt="A" title="" /> +</div> +<p>long long time ago, +there lived in a quiet +spot, a young man and his wife. +They had one child, a little +daughter, whom they both loved +with all their hearts. I cannot +tell you their names, for they have +been long since forgotten, but the +name of the place where they +lived was Matsuyama, in the +province of Echigo.</p> + +<p>It happened once, while the little +girl was still a baby, that the +father was obliged to go to the +great city, the capital of Japan, +upon some business. It was too far +for the mother and her little baby +to go, so he set out alone, after +bidding them good bye, and +promising to bring them home +some pretty present.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img005.jpg" width="375" height="553" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The mother had never been further +from home than the next +village, and she could not help +being a little frightened at the +thought of her husband taking +such a long journey, and yet she +was a little proud too, for he was +the first man in all that country +side who had been to the big town +where the King and his great lords +lived, and where there were so +many beautiful and curious things +to be seen.</p> + +<p>At last the time came when she +might expect her husband back, so +she dressed the baby in its best +clothes, and herself put on a pretty +blue dress which she knew her +husband liked.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img007.jpg" width="375" height="336" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>You may fancy how glad this +good wife was to see him come +home safe and sound, and how the +little girl clapped her hands, and +laughed with delight, when she +saw the pretty toys her father had +brought for her. He had much to +tell of all the wonderful things he +had seen upon the journey, and in +the town itself.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img008.jpg" width="375" height="566" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>“I have brought you a very +pretty thing,” said he to his wife: +“it is called a mirror. Look and +tell me what you see inside.” He +gave to her a plain, white wooden +box, in which, when she had +opened it, she found a round piece +of metal. One side was white like +frosted silver, and ornamented +with raised figures of birds and +flowers, the other was bright as +the clearest crystal. Into it the +young mother looked with delight +and astonishment, for, from its +depths was looking at her with +parted lips and bright eyes, a +smiling happy face.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img010.jpg" width="375" height="329" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>“What do you see?” again +asked the husband, pleased at her +astonishment, and glad to show +that he had learned something +while he had been away. “I see +a pretty woman looking at me, and +she moves her lips as if she was +speaking, and—dear me, how odd, +she has on a blue dress just like +mine!” “Why, you silly woman, +it is your own face that you see,” +said the husband, proud of knowing +something that his wife +didn’t know. That round piece of +metal is called a mirror, in the +town every body has one, although +we have not seen them in this +country place before.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img011.jpg" width="375" height="554" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The wife was charmed with her +present, and, for a few days could +not look into the mirror often +enough, for you must remember, +that, as this was the first time +she had seen a mirror, so, of +course, it was the first time she +had ever seen the reflection of +her own pretty face. But she considered +such a wonderful thing far +too precious for every day use, +and soon shut it up in its box +again, and put it away carefully +among her most valued treasures.</p> + +<p>Years past on, and the husband +and wife still lived happily. The +joy of their life was their little +daughter, who grew up the very +image of her mother, and who was +so dutiful and affectionate that +every body loved her. Mindful of +her own little passing vanity on +finding herself so lovely, the mother +kept the mirror carefully hidden +away, fearing that the use of it +might breed a spirit of pride in her +little girl.</p> + +<p>She never spoke of it, and +as for the father, he had forgotten +all about it. So it happened that +the daughter grew up as simple +as the mother had been, and knew +nothing of her own good looks, +or of the mirror which would have +reflected them.</p> + +<p>But bye and bye a terrible misfortune +happened to this happy +little family. The good, kind mother +fell sick; and, although her daughter +waited upon her day and +night, with loving care, she got +worse and worse, until at last there +was no hope but that she must die.</p> + +<p>When she found that she must +so soon leave her husband and +child, the poor woman felt very +sorrowful, grieving for those she +was going to leave behind, and +most of all for her little daughter.</p> + +<p>She called the girl to her and +said; “My darling child, you know +that I am very sick: soon I must +die, and leave your dear father +and you alone. When I am +gone, promise me that you will +look into this mirror every night +and every morning: there you will +see me, and know that I am still +watching over you.” With these +words she took the mirror from its +hiding place and gave it to her +daughter. The child promised, with +many tears, and so the mother, +seeming now calm and resigned, +died a short time after.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img017.jpg" width="375" height="556" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Now this obedient and dutiful +daughter, never forgot her mother’s +last request, but each morning and +evening took the mirror from its +hiding place, and looked in it +long and earnestly. There she saw +the bright and smiling vision of +her lost mother. Not pale and +sickly as in her last days, but the +beautiful young mother of long ago. +To her at night she told the story +of the trials and difficulties of the +day, to her in the morning she +looked for sympathy and encouragement +in whatever might be in +store for her. So day by day she lived +as in her mother’s sight, striving +still to please her as she had +done in her life time, and careful +always to avoid whatever might +pain or grieve her. Her greatest +joy was to be able to look in the +mirror and say; “Mother, I have +been today what you would have +me to be.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img020.jpg" width="375" height="273" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Seeing her every night and +morning, without fail, look into the +mirror, and seem to hold converse +with it, her father at length asked +her the reason of her strange +behaviour. “Father,” she said, +“I look in the mirror every day to +see my dear mother and to talk +with her.” Then she told him of +her mother’s dying wish, and how +she had never failed to fulfil it. +Touched by so much simplicity, +and such faithful, loving obedience, +the father shed tears of pity +and affection. +Nor could he +find it in his +heart to tell +the child, that the image she saw in +the mirror, was but the reflection +of her own sweet face, by constant +sympathy and association, becoming +more and more like her dead +mother’s day by day.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img021.jpg" width="375" height="343" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 95%;" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img022.jpg" width="375" height="630" alt="back cover" title="" /> +</div> + +</div> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30020 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/30020-h/images/img001.jpg b/30020-h/images/img001.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..96c775f --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img001.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img002.jpg b/30020-h/images/img002.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..21789f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img002.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img003.jpg b/30020-h/images/img003.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..18ed950 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img003.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img005.jpg b/30020-h/images/img005.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bf65da --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img005.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img007.jpg b/30020-h/images/img007.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7a57e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img007.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img008.jpg b/30020-h/images/img008.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9fe5fe8 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img008.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img010.jpg b/30020-h/images/img010.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..55ae057 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img010.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img011.jpg b/30020-h/images/img011.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5310d45 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img011.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img017.jpg b/30020-h/images/img017.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..60239a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img017.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img020.jpg b/30020-h/images/img020.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..045d923 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img020.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img021.jpg b/30020-h/images/img021.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..21917d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img021.jpg diff --git a/30020-h/images/img022.jpg b/30020-h/images/img022.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5318540 --- /dev/null +++ b/30020-h/images/img022.jpg |
