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diff --git a/40141-h/40141-h.htm b/40141-h/40141-h.htm index c158854..ab258f4 100644 --- a/40141-h/40141-h.htm +++ b/40141-h/40141-h.htm @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <meta name="Publisher" content="Macmillan and Company"> <meta name="Date" content="1895"> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <style type="text/css"> body {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; background-color:#FFFFFF;} @@ -98,42 +98,7 @@ p.hang2 {margin-left:3em; text-indent:0em;} </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Red Rowans, by Flora Annie Steel - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere 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 - - -Title: Red Rowans - -Author: Flora Annie Steel - -Release Date: July 4, 2012 [EBook #40141] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RED ROWANS *** - - - - -Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by -Google Books (New York Public Library) - - - - - - -</pre> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40141 ***</div> <br> <br> @@ -1162,7 +1127,7 @@ exceptionally fitted for the future she had mapped out for herself, so in a way he was bound to let her try it.</p> <p class="normal">Consequently, as she sate that July afternoon teaching the children -their duty to their neighbour, there was no <i>arrière pensée</i> of any +their duty to their neighbour, there was no <i>arrière pensée</i> of any kind in her affectionate reliance on Cousin Tom's unfailing interest. That would last until she grew tired of teaching, and he grew old. Then, always supposing that it was agreeable to both parties, they @@ -3266,7 +3231,7 @@ nice-looking. This point of good looks was one upon which Mrs. Woodward laid great insistence, and it enabled her to spend the next hour or two in finishing a sentimental novel in which the lovers, after sternly rejecting the counsels of parents and guardians, were -rewarded in the third volume with £50,000 a year and a baronetcy. For, +rewarded in the third volume with £50,000 a year and a baronetcy. For, like most mothers, poor Mrs. Woodward was sadly at sea on the matrimonial question. Its romantic side appealed to her fancy, its business side to her experience, since no woman can have done her duty @@ -3505,7 +3470,7 @@ overture, 'Tannhauser.'"</p> <p class="normal">A note which meant all or nothing according to the wishes of the reader. In this case it meant all, for Jack, returning to his rooms -after a disastrous attempt to begin his future rôle in life by playing +after a disastrous attempt to begin his future rôle in life by playing whist with the old fogies at his club, was feeling that life, even as a misogynist, was unendurable, when the sight of his aunt's handwriting made his heart beat. The note was not in the least what he @@ -3618,7 +3583,7 @@ table----"</p> <p class="normal">"Well, I don't know," put in Lady George, absently; "I think those stuffed larks came from Mirobolants. I saw that style of decoration in -his place the other day, and I'm quite sure the iced soufflé was +his place the other day, and I'm quite sure the iced soufflé was Bombardi's; I know the shape."</p> <p class="normal">"Exactly what I said!" continued the husband, "not a thing fit for a @@ -3648,7 +3613,7 @@ of whiskey. 'You had better give it her, my lady,' said Jane, 'for fear as the dinner might 'ave no appearance.'"</p> <p class="normal">Among other unknown and despised talents which did not suit Lady -George's theory of her own rôle in life was a distinct turn for +George's theory of her own rôle in life was a distinct turn for mimicry. Her admirable impersonation of Jane, therefore, made her husband burst out laughing; since by a whimsical perversion of affairs he loved his wife dearly for the very qualities which she feigned not @@ -3674,7 +3639,7 @@ lady-like, refined; a girl of whom you would be very fond if she were your wife. Her father is a speculator. Not quite so safe, of course, as a solid business--buttons or tallow--though, by the way, he has something to do with soap. Still, these Woodwards are quite -presentable, and <i>Monsieur le père</i> has his wits about him. And then +presentable, and <i>Monsieur le père</i> has his wits about him. And then you know there are always settlements, and deeds of gift, and those sort of things which creditors make such a fuss about."</p> @@ -3701,7 +3666,7 @@ cream expended on his behalf, yet felt that she had been successful; but, then, she would hardly have recognised herself if she had not been so, since in her own little world, which she carefully avoided extending unwisely either upwards or downwards, Lady George Temple was -always cited as a success in all the rôles which she felt called upon +always cited as a success in all the rôles which she felt called upon to play.</p> <p class="normal">"I heard from Paul to-day, by the way," she said, as she gathered up @@ -3865,7 +3830,7 @@ Blasius--or, let me see, was it Blasius George?"</p> <p class="normal">"It is a matter of no importance, my dear," replied her husband, drily. He did not remind his wife, nor did she choose to remember that -at the time she had been playing the ultra ritualistic rôle. To tell +at the time she had been playing the ultra ritualistic rôle. To tell the truth, she did not care to be brought face to face with her past impersonations, unless the fancy seized her to revert to them; when, at a moment's notice, she could resume the character as if she had @@ -3949,7 +3914,7 @@ uttermost. From what? from herself, perhaps. For Mrs. Vane had performed the most unselfish act of her life when she had laughed and scoffed at the devotion and gratitude of her patient. She had had many, she said, and they had always felt like that during some period -of their convalescence. There was nothing for these sequelæ of jungle +of their convalescence. There was nothing for these sequelæ of jungle fever like three months' leave to the bears in Kashmir; and, if he liked, he might bring her home one of those little silk carpets for her sitting-room as a fee; she would prefer a carpet to anything else. @@ -3966,7 +3931,7 @@ effusively of the woman who had saved his life as if she were an old frump, when she was really--Blanche, being a person of sense, felt forced to acknowledge the truth--one of the most charming little creatures imaginable, with just that half-sympathetic, half-bantering -manner which was so taking. And Paul, having done this, her own rôle +manner which was so taking. And Paul, having done this, her own rôle of devoted sisterhood suffered thereby; so she fell back upon her motherhood.</p> @@ -4044,7 +4009,7 @@ dear Mrs. Vane, who, to judge from her <i>looks</i>, must have had great <i>trouble</i>, and fully deserved dear, kind Paul's grateful remembrance of past services; which, by the way, she seemed to have extended to many other fortunate invalids. Altogether a most delightful woman, of -<i>varied experiences</i> if a trifle <i>manierée</i>; "though this," she added, +<i>varied experiences</i> if a trifle <i>manierée</i>; "though this," she added, "my dear Paul, is, I fear, a common fault with women who have been made much of <i>by many men</i>."</p> @@ -4087,7 +4052,7 @@ rise been clearly visible. The fierce sun beat down on the limestone rocks, giving a russet tinge even to their mosses, and Paul Macleod's useless rod lay in its case, since the river was reduced to a mere tinkle of clear water in a moraine of boulders. So he took to -haymaking instead, partly because it suited his mood to play the rôle +haymaking instead, partly because it suited his mood to play the rôle of country proprietor--for to a certain extent he shared his sister's dramatic temperament--and partly because Marjory always brought Will Cameron's tea into the fields. It was quite idyllic to watch her from @@ -4901,7 +4866,7 @@ instant after Paul's figure showed round a rock below, busily engaged with a swishing trout rod.</p> <div class="poem2"> -<p class="i6">"Die schönste Mädchen sitzet +<p class="i6">"Die schönste Mädchen sitzet Dort oben wunderbar." </div> @@ -5859,7 +5824,7 @@ the long-prophesied judgment had overtaken this evil generation. And she had lived in the Glen for fifty years.</p> <p class="normal">Poor Lady George, who had arrived at Gleneira wet, chilled, -uncomfortable, yet still prepared to play her rôle of hostess to +uncomfortable, yet still prepared to play her rôle of hostess to perfection, fell a victim to a cold, which, as she complained, put it out of her power to give a good rendering to the part. Since it was manifestly impossible to receive her visitors, arriving in their @@ -5874,7 +5839,7 @@ influenza! So she went about in a very smart, short, tweed costume, with gaiters, and affected a sort of forced indifference even when the cook, imported at fabulous wages, gave up her place on the third day, saying she could not live in a shower bath, and was not accustomed to -a Zoölogical Gardens in the larder; when the upper housemaid gave +a Zoölogical Gardens in the larder; when the upper housemaid gave warning because hot water was not laid on to the top of the house, and the kitchenmaid refused to make the porridge for the half-dozen Highland lassies, who did all the work, on the ground that no @@ -6507,7 +6472,7 @@ Paul--and a couple of men to match. Finally the Moth."</p> <p class="normal">"Miss Jones, or is she Miss Smith? I met her in Devonshire with another school friend. She was Watteau then--cream and roses. I met her, too, on a yacht--anchors and lanyards. And here, like Lady -George, she is <i>moyen-âge</i>."</p> +George, she is <i>moyen-âge</i>."</p> <p class="normal">"But why the Moth?"</p> @@ -6544,7 +6509,7 @@ and sing for us?"</p> us--she is obdurate with me."</p> <p class="normal">Lady George, delighted at her brother's virtue in seeking to break up -a <i>tête-a-tête</i>, was urgent in her appeals, and Mrs. Vane passed to +a <i>tête-a-tête</i>, was urgent in her appeals, and Mrs. Vane passed to the piano, airily.</p> <p class="normal">"There is music here," cried Lord George, officiously producing a book @@ -6775,7 +6740,7 @@ her and feel no desire to prolong the touch, to look in her face and see nothing that was not clear and cold in her eyes, was not, could not, be comforting. Clearly his feeling for her was not to be classed as a passion. And yet how glad he had been to see her. How contented -he had been to walk beside her, and what a sense of <i>bien-être</i> her +he had been to walk beside her, and what a sense of <i>bien-être</i> her presence gave him. And it was distinctly satisfactory to find it so little disturbing. Then, recognising the fact that he was becoming absent in the effort to remember the exact look on her face as she @@ -6952,7 +6917,7 @@ that was the right word!--charming from the sole of their feet to the crown of their heads. As if she had anything in common with such people!--or, for the matter of that, with Paul, himself--she, whose fate it was to work, and who liked that fate? Yet almost before -Captain Macleod and his companion had reached home after the <i>détour</i> +Captain Macleod and his companion had reached home after the <i>détour</i> he begged for round the garden, Marjory had thrown down her book in a temper at her own stupidity, run upstairs for her hat, and was off for a wild, solitary scramble over the hills.</p> @@ -7639,7 +7604,7 @@ Mrs. Vane had crossed the room and was standing opposite Lady George.</p> <p class="normal">"I would ask you to introduce me to Dr. Kennedy," she said, "but it would be of no use, for while he has made a name for himself since I knew him, I have lost mine. So I will only ask him if he remembers the -jasmine bush at the Château Saumarez?"</p> +jasmine bush at the Château Saumarez?"</p> <p class="normal">There was an instant's bewilderment, and then Tommy Kennedy, who had risen at her first word, took a step forward and both his hands went @@ -7664,7 +7629,7 @@ jasmine bush, Alphonse, was at your uncle's, Prince Rosignacs's. Why! you have a bit in your buttonhole now, and I----" She pointed to the spray fastened into the laces of her tea-gown.</p> -<p class="normal">"<i>Ce soir ma robe en est tout embaumée</i>."</p> +<p class="normal">"<i>Ce soir ma robe en est tout embaumée</i>."</p> <p class="normal">"<i>Respires-en moi l'adorant souvenir</i>," quoted Dr. Kennedy, looking at the lapel of his coat tenderly; and Marjory, standing a little apart, @@ -7772,7 +7737,7 @@ aware of his own reputation as one of the boldest adventurers in new fields of discovery, and told himself that people made much of him for their own sake, and because he carried his restless energy with him into society as well as into his work. For energy is, as a rule, a -godsend to <i>fin-de-siècle</i> men and women. So the conceit of it slipped +godsend to <i>fin-de-siècle</i> men and women. So the conceit of it slipped off him like water from a duck's back, leaving him free to take his world as he found it.</p> @@ -7840,7 +7805,7 @@ the most beautiful woman I ever saw. That is why I call it a caricature, Mrs. Vane."</p> <p class="normal">The anger in his voice was not to be mistaken, and Marjory, as he -moved away to resume his <i>tête-a-tête</i> with Alice Woodward, was left +moved away to resume his <i>tête-a-tête</i> with Alice Woodward, was left with an uncomfortable feeling that she had somehow betrayed a secret, though her common, sense resented the imputation. But Mrs. Vane looked after his retreating figure with one of her fine smiles. So the memory @@ -8219,7 +8184,7 @@ it was a further relief to meet the butler in the hall carrying a fresh teapot of tea into the drawing-room, while the footman followed decorously bearing eight cups on a tray. Lady Hooker, the former functionary replied, in answer to her inquiries, had driven over from -the Forest to see her ladyship in a <i>châr-a-banc</i>, with seven other +the Forest to see her ladyship in a <i>châr-a-banc</i>, with seven other ladies, some children, and a piper playing on the box. He added the last item in tones of tolerant contempt, born of a dispute downstairs as to whether the musician should have his tea in the housekeeper's @@ -8375,7 +8340,7 @@ at the Forest--that's your place, isn't it?"</p> <p class="normal">"It's a deal bigger than this," remarked the other. "And we have deers and grouses."</p> -<p class="normal">So the game of brag--which children play more naïvely than their +<p class="normal">So the game of brag--which children play more naïvely than their elders--began, while the authoress was explaining at length how it came about that Cressida had consented to Blasius's methods of persuasion.</p> @@ -8399,7 +8364,7 @@ ones have a trick of doing, begged for more consideration as she sate turning a polite ear and tongue to the task of amusing the authoress, who had remained behind; Mrs. Woodward meanwhile appearing deeply interested in a certain place the Hookers had had in Perthshire, where -the gillies expected champagne and <i>pâti de foie gras</i> for their ball +the gillies expected champagne and <i>pâti de foie gras</i> for their ball supper. And she was fast approaching that condition of mind in which the only thing which prevents our owning up that we are out of our depth is the conviction that we know quite as much of what we are @@ -8455,7 +8420,7 @@ matters before nurse appeared.</p> <p class="normal">"They was flicking piggy wif a pin, and piggy was 'quealin' louder nor Blazeths."</p> -<p class="normal">And even Lady George--when the <i>châr-a-banc</i> had driven off, piper and +<p class="normal">And even Lady George--when the <i>châr-a-banc</i> had driven off, piper and mackintoshes and all, with Cressida kissing her still tarry hands to a struggling figure in Mary's arms at the nursery window--was forced to admit that Blazes generally went straight to the point; and that after @@ -8768,7 +8733,7 @@ mentioned it, now."</p> <p class="normal">"What is it?" she asked, in a constrained voice. "I should like to know, if I may?"</p> -<p class="normal">"My dear! of course you may. Pyæmia; the knife slipped, that was all. +<p class="normal">"My dear! of course you may. Pyæmia; the knife slipped, that was all. The veriest scratch. What a fool I was to mention it!"</p> <p class="normal">"Don't say that," she flashed out suddenly. "Don't you know that I @@ -8851,7 +8816,7 @@ possibilities. So he devoted himself more than usual to his duty, and though, of course, he made up his tiff a trifle sentimentally with Marjory, he chose to be rather lordly over her relations with Dr. Kennedy, and even went so far as to mention to his sister that he -suspected her <i>protégé</i>, Mr. Gillespie, was forestalled.</p> +suspected her <i>protégé</i>, Mr. Gillespie, was forestalled.</p> <p class="normal">"My dear Paul!" said Lady George, distractedly, "I really don't care at the present moment who marries who. I might be in a better world @@ -9162,7 +9127,7 @@ audience. And Paul knew--knew all too well--but he sate silent, crushing down his anger at the skill of the thrust.</p> <p class="normal">"What is it?" echoed Alice Woodward, who, with an opera cloak thrown -over her last costume, had returned to her rôle of spectator. "Why, +over her last costume, had returned to her rôle of spectator. "Why, Brynhild, of course, mamma! The Nibelungen, you know--we heard that German tenor in it, if you remember. Mrs. Vane has staged it beautifully, hasn't she, Captain Macleod; and how well the dress suits @@ -9472,7 +9437,7 @@ next Thursday."</p> <p class="normal">"Yes, I know. But don't talk of it; let us enjoy it while it lasts!"</p> <p class="normal">He turned back to his work again hurriedly. "Now, that is what I -should call truly frivolous. So be it. However, <i>Vogue la galère!</i> It +should call truly frivolous. So be it. However, <i>Vogue la galère!</i> It is a very easy philosophy, at any rate."</p> <p class="normal">They were silent again for a space, and then she began again. "What I @@ -9507,7 +9472,7 @@ dowdy all the same."</p> you really ought to go and dress, my dear. In my time girls----"</p> <p class="normal">"In your time!" she flashed out. "Why? Why, you are quite up to date, -Tom, and I--I am hopelessly <i>arriérée</i>, especially in my dress! Oh, +Tom, and I--I am hopelessly <i>arriérée</i>, especially in my dress! Oh, dear f I suppose I must----"</p> <p class="normal">A minute afterwards she came flying down the stairs, followed by Mrs. @@ -10033,7 +9998,7 @@ irony of fate, indeed," he murmured as she read:--</p> <p class="normal">"<span class="sc">Dear Madam</span>,--We have to advise you of the death of our esteemed client, Mr. John Duncan, of Melbourne, Australia, and to inform you that under his will you, as his widow, come into property amounting to -close on £100,000."</p> +close on £100,000."</p> <br> <p class="normal">Mrs. Vane's hand holding the letter fell to her side, and Dr. @@ -10384,7 +10349,7 @@ and the antimacassar will keep him warm, and he can have his tea with me."</p> <p class="normal">This incident, however, made it quite impossible for her to continue -the rôle she had been playing before. How could she? with Blasius +the rôle she had been playing before. How could she? with Blasius huddled up on her lap, eating bread and jam between his attempts to count his bare toes; an arithmetical problem which he insisted on solving, despite her efforts with the antimacassar. Not that the @@ -10636,7 +10601,7 @@ distinguished, but none of the Hooker party speak German. George will, of course, take him in tow by and bye, being in the Foreign Office; but just now, I thought--if you would not mind. Thanks, so much! it always looks well to have more than one linguist. At present, I have -sent him to admire the view with Major Bertie, who says 'wunderschön' +sent him to admire the view with Major Bertie, who says 'wunderschön' at intervals; but that can't last long, you know."</p> <p class="normal">"My dear Blanche, you are as good as a play!" protested her husband, @@ -10782,7 +10747,7 @@ motto."</p> <p class="normal">Yet as they paused at the first turn he looked back towards the two figures cresting the rise, and remarked easily to his companion that Miss Carmichael was quite a picture on the hillside, and walked like a -shepherd. And then, as easily, he proposed taking a <i>détour</i> through a +shepherd. And then, as easily, he proposed taking a <i>détour</i> through a nut wood, and so by a path he knew back to the beach.</p> <p class="normal">"Alice would like a cup of tea, please; she is rather tired," he said @@ -10832,7 +10797,7 @@ parting.</p> <p class="normal">The Reverend James Gillespie had a certain coarse fibre in him, which made it only natural that the snub direct he had received from Dr. Kennedy should make him more determined than he had been before -on a <i>tête-a-tête</i> with Marjory. Consequently, much to her disgust, +on a <i>tête-a-tête</i> with Marjory. Consequently, much to her disgust, she found him solemnly waiting for her on a tombstone in the old burying-ground. The spectacle was an irritating one.</p> @@ -12021,7 +11986,7 @@ plenty of people to pay for the privilege of doing so."</p> that she did it, as she did everything else, with infinite verve and grace. Blanche, who had not said half as much, had made him angry; and here he was seated beside Violet's sofa, enjoying his tea, and feeling -that sense of <i>bien être</i> which he always felt in her company.</p> +that sense of <i>bien être</i> which he always felt in her company.</p> <p class="normal">Yet even she might have failed in producing this for once, if he could have overheard a conversation which was going on over another cup of @@ -12032,7 +11997,7 @@ interview with Paul that morning.</p> <p class="normal">"Very honourable, no doubt, but exceedingly unsatisfactory," she remarked, with asperity. "I must say that I think you failed."</p> -<p class="normal">"Did you wish me to give the man his <i>congé</i>, my dear?" interrupted +<p class="normal">"Did you wish me to give the man his <i>congé</i>, my dear?" interrupted her spouse, irritably. "If so, you should have told me so distinctly, but if it comes to that I can write and dismiss him."</p> @@ -12339,7 +12304,7 @@ position.</p> <p class="normal">So he wandered on until he found himself in Regent's Park, and then, with that idle distaste to some decisive action which a return -clubwards would necessitate, in the Zoölogical Gardens. It was years +clubwards would necessitate, in the Zoölogical Gardens. It was years since he had been there of a morning without a band and a crowd. Years since he had brought papers of nuts and biscuits, and given them to the bears. But now he was free--yes! that was one comfort! he was free @@ -12452,7 +12417,7 @@ packet out once more and looked doubtfully at the marriage certificate.</p> <p class="normal">"Captain Macleod," said the servant at the door, for Paul was a -privileged visitor, with the <i>entrée</i> at all times to Mrs. Vane's +privileged visitor, with the <i>entrée</i> at all times to Mrs. Vane's little sitting-room. She had barely time to thrust the paper under a book ere he was beside her.</p> @@ -12606,7 +12571,7 @@ understand me."</p> <p class="normal">"I do understand you, Paul; better perhaps than you understand yourself. That is why I tell you not to go down to Gleneira. You are -<i>tête montée</i> now. You are not yourself. Look the matter in the face! +<i>tête montée</i> now. You are not yourself. Look the matter in the face! Supposing she were to accept you; what then?"</p> <p class="normal">He paused a moment. "I should marry her, I suppose--but she won't. I @@ -12774,7 +12739,7 @@ just!</p> <p class="right">"<span class="sc">Jeanie Duncan</span>.</p> <br> -<p class="normal">"P.S.--Look in the photograph shops in Paris for 'La Belle Écossaise,' +<p class="normal">"P.S.--Look in the photograph shops in Paris for 'La Belle Écossaise,' if you wish to know what I was like when <i>he</i> married me."</p> <br> @@ -13610,7 +13575,7 @@ conscious of nothing but the fever raging in it.</p> hear the long tale Dr. Kennedy had to tell, for Paul had only written of the sad accident. And Lady George followed, with two plain, black dresses and a little assortment of highly starched linen collars and -cuffs in her portmanteaux, ready at all points to take up the rôle of +cuffs in her portmanteaux, ready at all points to take up the rôle of nurse; though why a woman should nurse better in handcuffs, which prevent all natural play of the wrist, and why a patient should be supposed to like the dangling of starched cap-strings in his face, is @@ -13844,381 +13809,7 @@ Shade! 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