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diff --git a/34366-h/34366-h.htm b/34366-h/34366-h.htm index 695b026..55989c6 100644 --- a/34366-h/34366-h.htm +++ b/34366-h/34366-h.htm @@ -1,16 +1,14 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- $Id: header.txt 236 2009-12-07 18:57:00Z vlsimpson $ --> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<html lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> - <title> + <meta charset="utf-8"> +<title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Vera, by the Author of Elizabeth and her German Garden. </title> - <style type="text/css"> + <style> body { margin-left: 10%; @@ -55,25 +53,51 @@ hr { .center {text-align: center;} +.h1, .h2, .h3, .h4, .h5,.h6 { + text-align: center; + display: block; + margin-left: 0; + margin-right: 0; + font-weight: bold; +} +.h1 { + font-size: 2em; + margin-top: 0.67em; + margin-bottom: 0.67em; +} +.h2 { + font-size: 1.5em; + margin-top: 0.83em; + margin-bottom: 0.83em; +} +.h3 { + font-size: 1.17em; + margin-top: 1em; + margin-bottom: 1em; +} +.h4 { + font-size: 1em; + margin-top: 1.33em; + margin-bottom: 1.33em; +} </style> </head> <body> -<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 34366 ***</div> - +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 34366 ***</div> <h1>VERA</h1> -<h2>BY THE AUTHOR OF<br/> -"ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN"</h2> +<div class="h2">BY THE AUTHOR OF<br> +"ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN"</div> -<h4>MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED,</h4> -<h4>ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON</h4> -<h4>1921 </h4> +<div class="h4">MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED,</div> +<div class="h4">ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON</div> +<div class="h4">1921 </div> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>I</h2> @@ -367,7 +391,7 @@ other he unlatched the gate and walked in.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>II</h2> @@ -700,7 +724,7 @@ smile intended to convey encouragement and pity.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>III</h2> @@ -955,7 +979,7 @@ sick and now had found its mother.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>IV</h2> @@ -1459,7 +1483,7 @@ you must forgive me——'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>V</h2> @@ -1841,7 +1865,7 @@ its tears.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>VI</h2> @@ -1963,7 +1987,7 @@ and it was because of his letters.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>VII</h2> @@ -2176,7 +2200,7 @@ hands in her lap, and a proverb she had read somewhere running in her head:</p> <p> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">When God shuts the door He opens the window.</span><br /> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">When God shuts the door He opens the window.</span><br> </p> <p>Not for a moment, hardly, had she been left alone to @@ -2252,7 +2276,7 @@ thing—<i>she</i> believes in me all right!'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>VIII</h2> @@ -2536,7 +2560,7 @@ her toast and butter, that Aunt Dot suspected?</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>IX</h2> @@ -2851,7 +2875,7 @@ Mr. We—— no, Everard.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>X</h2> @@ -3083,7 +3107,7 @@ reckon up: 'None.'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XI</h2> @@ -3631,7 +3655,7 @@ up. Lord, what a kill-joy that woman is!'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XII</h2> @@ -4016,7 +4040,7 @@ very nearly hoped so.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XIII</h2> @@ -4151,7 +4175,7 @@ space of further reflection, 'He really <i>is</i> a—a dear.'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XIV</h2> @@ -4543,7 +4567,7 @@ since her marriage slept all night.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XV</h2> @@ -4750,7 +4774,7 @@ The Willows, waiting for her, was Vera.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XVI</h2> @@ -5206,7 +5230,7 @@ were people all round it.'</p> <p>'People? You don't mean to say you want people already?'</p> -<p>'Good heavens no,' said Lucy hastily.' Of course +<p>'Good heavens no,' said Lucy hastily. 'Of course I don't. Why, of course, Everard, I didn't mean that,' she added, laying her hand on his and smiling at him so as to dispel the gathering cloud on his face; and once @@ -5254,7 +5278,7 @@ remotely imagine how.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XVII</h2> @@ -5713,7 +5737,7 @@ at the face on his breast.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XVIII</h2> @@ -6012,7 +6036,7 @@ up there. The view is really magnificent.'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XIX</h2> @@ -6265,7 +6289,7 @@ she got to the door and turned the handle it was locked.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XX</h2> @@ -6654,7 +6678,7 @@ hurry to get to know, to get to understand, Vera....</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXI</h2> @@ -6948,7 +6972,7 @@ how he loved her....</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXII</h2> @@ -6973,7 +6997,7 @@ across the room in the way that was natural, for he felt no impulse in the presence of sleep to go softly. Besides, why should she sleep in broad daylight? Wemyss was of opinion that the night was for that. -No wonder she couldn't steep at night if she did it in +No wonder she couldn't sleep at night if she did it in the daytime. There she was, sleeping soundly, completely indifferent to what he might be doing. Would a really loving woman be able to do that? Would a @@ -7280,7 +7304,7 @@ settled in the chair.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXIII</h2> @@ -7650,7 +7674,7 @@ of a jump.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXIV</h2> @@ -7830,14 +7854,14 @@ and bring some hot tea.'</p> Lucy's head when she saw the teapot going. It was:</p> <p> -<span style="margin-left: 2em;">What various hindrances we meet—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">What various hindrances we meet—</span><br> </p> <p>and she thought the next line, which she didn't remember, must have been:</p> <p> -<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Before at tea ourselves we seat.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Before at tea ourselves we seat.</span><br> </p> <p>But though one portion of her mind was repeating @@ -8031,7 +8055,7 @@ done with marriage is to let it wash over one.'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXV</h2> @@ -8269,7 +8293,7 @@ by in attendance.</p> <p>There was a cold sunset,—a narrow strip of gold below heavy clouds, like a sullen, half-open eye. The prudent cows dotted the fields motionlessly, lying on -their dry bite of grass. The wind blew straight across +their dry bits of grass. The wind blew straight across from the sunset through Lucy's coat, wrap herself in it as tightly as she might, while they loitered among outhouses and examined the durability of the railings. @@ -8346,7 +8370,7 @@ come too.'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXVI</h2> @@ -8694,7 +8718,7 @@ by Aunt Dot, the dear, the kind, the comprehensible.</p> <p>Well, thought Miss Entwhistle as she sat there softly stroking and watching Lucy's face of complete content -while she dozed off even after she was asleep the +while she dozed off—even after she was asleep the corners of her mouth still were tucked up in a smile—it was plain that Everard was making the child happy. In that case he certainly must be all that Lucy had @@ -8788,7 +8812,7 @@ interest.'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXVII</h2> @@ -8965,7 +8989,7 @@ to do, the only way of dignity, was to ring him up. Useless waiting any more for him to do it; evidently he wasn't going to. She would ring him up, tell him she was there, and ask—she clung particularly to the doctor -idea, because his presence would justify hers if the +idea, because his presence would justify hers—if the doctor hadn't better look in in the morning.</p> <p>Thus it was that, sitting quiet in their basement, @@ -9084,7 +9108,7 @@ as to help me carry my pillow and blankets into Mrs. Wemyss's room. I'm going to sleep on the sofa there.'</p> <p>'Yes ma'am,' said Lizzie, picking them up. 'The -sofa's very short and 'aid, ma'am. 'Adn't you better +sofa's very short and 'ard, ma'am. 'Adn't you better sleep in the bed?'</p> <p>'No,' said Miss Entwhistle.</p> @@ -9096,7 +9120,7 @@ wouldn't know you was in it, it's such a large bed.'</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXVIII</h2> @@ -9535,7 +9559,7 @@ and was driven away.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXIX</h2> @@ -9926,7 +9950,7 @@ the greater amount of nourishment.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXX</h2> @@ -9957,7 +9981,7 @@ many cobwebs.</p> <p>Just before half-past seven, while she was in her room on the other side of the house tidying herself -before facing Chesterton and the evening meal she +before facing Chesterton and the evening meal—she had reduced it to the merest skeleton of a meal, but Chesterton insisted on waiting, and all the usual ceremonies were observed—she was startled by the sound @@ -10045,16 +10069,16 @@ How Jim would have scolded her,—Jim who forgot nothing that was beautiful.</p> <p> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">By nature cool, in pious habits bred,</span><br /> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">She looked on husbands with a virgin's dread....</span><br /> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">By nature cool, in pious habits bred,</span><br> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">She looked on husbands with a virgin's dread....</span><br> </p> <p>Now where did that come from? And why should it come at all?</p> <p> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">Such was the tone and manners of them all</span><br /> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">No married lady at the house would call....</span><br /> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">Such was the tone and manners of them all</span><br> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">No married lady at the house would call....</span><br> </p> <p>And that, for instance? She couldn't remember ever @@ -10065,8 +10089,8 @@ yet she must have; she certainly hadn't invented them.</p> quote and laugh at:</p> <p> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">Der Sultan winkt, Zuleika schweigt,</span><br /> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">Und zeigt sich gänzlich abgeneigt....</span><br /> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">Der Sultan winkt, Zuleika schweigt,</span><br> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">Und zeigt sich gänzlich abgeneigt....</span><br> </p> <p>Why should a thing like that rise now to the surface @@ -10100,8 +10124,8 @@ come. A last couplet floated through her brain,—her brain seemed to clutch at it:</p> <p> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">Betwixt the stirrup and the ground</span><br /> -<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">She mercy sought, she mercy found....</span><br /> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">Betwixt the stirrup and the ground</span><br> +<span style="margin: 2.5em 8em;">She mercy sought, she mercy found....</span><br> </p> <p>Now where did that come from? she asked herself @@ -10362,7 +10386,7 @@ library?' leapt to the tip of Miss Entwhistle's tongue.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXXI</h2> @@ -10747,7 +10771,7 @@ come.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> <h2>XXXII</h2> @@ -10860,7 +10884,7 @@ had to come to The Willows again, let alone having a free hand in London to influence Lucy when he was at his club playing bridge and unable to look after her. Yes; it was very satisfactory, and well worth coming -down day earlier for.</p> +down a day earlier for.</p> <p>He wound up his watch, standing before the last glimmerings of the fire, and felt quite good-humoured @@ -10910,6 +10934,6 @@ and she woke up just enough sleepily to return his kiss.</p> <p>THE END</p> -<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 34366 ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 34366 ***</div> </body> </html> |