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diff --git a/40264-h/40264-h.htm b/40264-h/40264-h.htm index b3e157d..9c8ce78 100644 --- a/40264-h/40264-h.htm +++ b/40264-h/40264-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Regiment of Women, by Clemence Dane. @@ -87,48 +87,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Regiment of Women, by Clemence Dane - -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: Regiment of Women - -Author: Clemence Dane - -Release Date: July 17, 2012 [EBook #40264] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REGIMENT OF WOMEN *** - - - - -Produced by David Starner, Veronika Redfern and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from images made available by the -HathiTrust Digital Library.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40264 ***</div> <h1>REGIMENT OF WOMEN</h1> @@ -142,11 +101,11 @@ HathiTrust Digital Library.) <table border="0" width="90%"> <tr> <td class="center" style="width:33%"><span class="small">THE MACMILLAN COMPANY</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS<br /> -ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO</span></td> +<span class="smaller">NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS<br /> +ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO</span></td> </tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr> <td class="center" style="width:33%"><span class="small">MACMILLAN & CO., <span class="smcap">Limited</span></span><br /> -<span class="smaller">LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA<br /> +<span class="smaller">LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA<br /> MELBOURNE</span></td> </tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr> <td class="center" style="width:33%"><span class="small">THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, <span class="smcap">Ltd</span>.</span><br /> @@ -432,7 +391,7 @@ about her business, asking no advice. But there had certainly followed a peaceful six months. Then had come speech-day and Henrietta's world had turned upside down. She had not known such a speech-day for years.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> Complacent parents had listened to amazingly efficient performances—the -guest of honour had enjoyed herself with obvious, naïve surprise: there +guest of honour had enjoyed herself with obvious, naïve surprise: there had been the bomb-shell of the lists. Henrietta had nothing to do with the examinations, but she knew such a standard had not been reached for many a long term. And the head mistress, restored and rubicund, had @@ -1050,7 +1009,7 @@ badly to his wife—that's all they knew!"</p> <p>"The English in a nutshell!" murmured Clare.</p> <p>"So, of course, I told them all about him, and his life, and tit-bits -like the Sèvres tea-things, and Madame Sans-gêne. They loved it. And I +like the Sèvres tea-things, and Madame Sans-gêne. They loved it. And I was showing them pictures and I suppose we got absorbed. You can't help it with Napoleon, somehow. Oh, Miss Hartill, doesn't it seem crazy, though, to keep those children at Latin exercises, and the exports of @@ -1689,7 +1648,7 @@ unimaginative hockey captain fluttered her pages distractedly.</p> <p>The little Jewess giggled.</p> -<p>"'<i>Déjà?</i>'" she murmured. She did not love Clare.</p> +<p>"'<i>Déjà ?</i>'" she murmured. She did not love Clare.</p> <p>Marion returned to the subject with her usual perseverance.</p> @@ -2482,7 +2441,7 @@ must not waste any more time.</p> <p>Louise submitted with her usual meekness, and did, Alwynne could see, do her utmost to apply herself to her work. But her answers were -ludicrously vague and <i>mal à propos</i>, and she met Alwynne's comments, +ludicrously vague and <i>mal à propos</i>, and she met Alwynne's comments, momentarily sharper, with an abstracted smile.</p> <p>Suddenly Alwynne lost patience with her.</p> @@ -2889,7 +2848,7 @@ gave them—" retorted Elsbeth heatedly. "But it's absurd to argue with you. What do you know of what food costs?"</p> <p>"Anyhow, Mrs. Baker, with six children——" began Alwynne, who also had -been primed by a protégée. But she recollected that she did not wish to +been primed by a protégée. But she recollected that she did not wish to annoy Elsbeth at this juncture. Clare must take precedence of Mrs. Baker. "Well, you can send them the legs and the carcase," she conceded; "even then there will be more than we can possibly manage. Couldn't we @@ -3968,7 +3927,7 @@ or even <i>The Wondrous Isles</i>. And, of course, none of the Lang books. I hate those. You know, proper fairy stories aren't easy to get. You have to dig. You get bits out of the notes in the Waverley Novels, and there's <i>Kilmeny</i>, and <i>The Celtic Twilight</i>, and <i>The Lore of -Proserpine</i>, and Lemprière. Do you believe in fairies, Miss Hartill?"</p> +Proserpine</i>, and Lemprière. Do you believe in fairies, Miss Hartill?"</p> <p>"It depends on the mood I'm in," said Clare seriously, "and the place. Elves and electric railways are incompatible."</p> @@ -3984,7 +3943,7 @@ can stand railways. But you just believe in them literaturily——"</p> see them if you think of them like that, Miss Hartill. The Greeks didn't—they just believed in Pan, and the Oreads, and the Dryads, and all those delicious<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> people; and the consequence was that the country -was simply crammed with them. You just read Lemprière! I wish I'd lived +was simply crammed with them. You just read Lemprière! I wish I'd lived then. Miss Hartill, did you ever see a Good Person?"</p> <p>"I'm afraid not, Louise. But I had a nurse who used to tell me about her @@ -5962,7 +5921,7 @@ night behind her, and a big morning's work before, and her usual end-of-term headache. Olivia was arriving—she glanced at the hopelessly legible sheets—at three-fifty. No chance of mistake there. Clare decided that it was quite impossible for her to survive a seven hours' -<i>tête-à-tête</i> with her affectionate friend Olivia Pring. If only Alwynne +<i>tête-à -tête</i> with her affectionate friend Olivia Pring. If only Alwynne could help her out. But Alwynne, she knew, was taking the skimmings of the Sixths and Fifths to a suitable Shakespeare performance. She had taken the pick of the classes herself the evening before. No chance of @@ -5998,7 +5957,7 @@ catching the girl she spoke with by the elbow, and pushing her gently along as she talked, bending over (she was very tall) and enveloping. Everybody knew the "Gendarme Stunt" as Cynthia Griffiths irreverently termed it, and no one would have dreamed of approaching or interrupting -such a <i>tête-à-tête</i>.</p> +such a <i>tête-à -tête</i>.</p> <p>Nevertheless, Miss Hartill had not exchanged three sentences with Louise Denny on the morning of Olivia Pring's arrival, before every girl in Big @@ -6816,7 +6775,7 @@ of the summer theatricals.</p> joined the staff indeed—it had grown into an annual personal triumph for Miss Hartill.</p> -<p>Clare was blessed—cursed—with that sixth sense, the <i>sens du théâtre</i>. +<p>Clare was blessed—cursed—with that sixth sense, the <i>sens du théâtre</i>. Her own nature was, in essence, theatrical; her frigid and fastidious reserve warring incessantly with her irrepressible love of the scene for its own sake. She was aware of the trait and humiliated by its presence @@ -6855,7 +6814,7 @@ embarrassed by the fact that the classes she supervised had that year proved themselves unusually poor in dramatic ability. She could depend, indeed, on a score of keen and capable children, but in Louise Denny alone had she glimpsed an actress who could do her credit. The child's -physique precluded her from rôles that, otherwise, she could easily have +physique precluded her from rôles that, otherwise, she could easily have filled, but as Prince Arthur, she could be made the central, unforgettable figure of an otherwise trite performance. "<i>King John</i>," quoth Clare; "decidedly, the very play." And <i>King John</i> was chosen.</p> @@ -6881,7 +6840,7 @@ capabilities.</p> <p>With Louise alone she had difficulties. The child was almost too easily trained. Responsive, quickly fired or chilled, she was, in fact, too delicately and completely attuned to Clare herself. Clare could be -crude: she had her gusty moods: the little æolian harp quivered to +crude: she had her gusty moods: the little æolian harp quivered to snapping point before them. Originally this extreme sensitiveness had fascinated Clare; she felt like a musician exploring the possibilities of an unknown instrument; but she tired of it in time. As Louise became @@ -6917,7 +6876,7 @@ improve, was natural. Here and there, as rehearsals progressed, she pulled and patched and patted—quite genuinely in the interest of the play as a whole. But the result was discouraging. The Louise of former days would have defended her own version, delighting Clare with shy -impudences and flashes of insight, naïve parries and counter-attacks, +impudences and flashes of insight, naïve parries and counter-attacks, till between them they had attained notable results. But the sparkle had been drilled out of Louise. She was humble, anxiously acquiescent, agreeing with every alteration, accepting every suggestion, however @@ -7263,7 +7222,7 @@ depths—leaving her essential self to float free and uncontained. She would resign herself luxuriously to the sensation of disintegration, but with maddening regularity her next breath clicked body and soul together anew. Yet, as she drowsed, the space between breath and breath -lengthened slowly, till they lay divided by incredible æons in which her +lengthened slowly, till they lay divided by incredible æons in which her thoughts wandered and lost<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span> themselves, grew hoar and died and were born again; while the dead-weight of her body sank ever deeper into sleep, was recalled to consciousness with ever increasing effort.</p> @@ -8647,7 +8606,7 @@ however dreadful! But there's a sort of oppression on us—a kind of fear. Do you know what I mean? I think we all feel it. It draws us together in a curious way."</p> -<p>"'The Tie of Common Funk,'" rapped out Clare, forgetting her rôle.</p> +<p>"'The Tie of Common Funk,'" rapped out Clare, forgetting her rôle.</p> <p>Henrietta stiffened.</p> @@ -8982,7 +8941,7 @@ She wanted Alwynne, and attention, and affection, and a little<span class="pagen butterfly kiss or two.... Alwynne ought to be awake to the fact that she was wanted....</p> -<p>She watched her, between fretfulness and affection, æsthetically +<p>She watched her, between fretfulness and affection, æsthetically appreciative of the big young body in the lavender frock, and the crown of shining hair, pleased with her property, intensely impatient of its interest in anything but herself.</p> @@ -9618,8 +9577,8 @@ woman—Newnham.)</p> <p>Henrietta Vigers was forty-seven when she left. She had spent youth and prime at the school, and had nothing more to sell. She had neither certificates nor recommendations behind her. She was hampered by her -aggressive gentility. Out of a £50 salary she had scraped together £500. -Invested daringly it yielded her £25 a year. She had no friends outside +aggressive gentility. Out of a £50 salary she had scraped together £500. +Invested daringly it yielded her £25 a year. She had no friends outside the school. She left none within it.</p> <p>Miss Marsham presented her with a gold watch, decorously inscribed; the @@ -10398,7 +10357,7 @@ a fit of the blues.... He had better talk to her, perhaps....</p> garrulous enough with women, but she did not in the least know how to talk to men. Therefore and naturally she was full of theories. She had vague ideas that they had to be amused as babies have to be amused, but -confronted with the prospect of a prolonged <i>tête-à-tête</i>, without +confronted with the prospect of a prolonged <i>tête-à -tête</i>, without Alicia or Jean to retire upon, she had nothing whatever to say. Yet she had been taught by Elsbeth to consider a lack of table-talk as a lack of manners, and was irritated with herself for her silence, and still more @@ -12072,7 +12031,7 @@ Is it probable? In any way feasible?"</p> <p>Roger flushed suddenly like an embarrassed boy.</p> -<p>"You know, it's queer," he confided, subsiding naïvely, "till I began to +<p>"You know, it's queer," he confided, subsiding naïvely, "till I began to talk to you, I didn't know I did. I never bother about church and things. You know——"</p> @@ -12892,7 +12851,7 @@ had to go."</p> <p>"Clare, you remind me of a man I met, down at Compton. You ought to get on together. He's great on tolerance too. So tolerant that five hundred years ago he'd have burned every one who wasn't as tolerant as he. As it -is, he shrugs them out of existence, <i>à la</i> Podsnap. Just as you did +is, he shrugs them out of existence, <i>à la</i> Podsnap. Just as you did Miss Vigers just now."</p> <p>"Who was he?"</p> @@ -13062,7 +13021,7 @@ a rabbit in a green cabbage that opened. And one Sunday we shared Prayer Books. You had a blue dress—a pale blue that one never sees nowadays, and very pink cheeks."</p> -<p>"Ah! the <i>crêpe de Chine</i>," said Elsbeth absently.</p> +<p>"Ah! the <i>crêpe de Chine</i>," said Elsbeth absently.</p> <p>"I always remembered—though I'd forgotten I did. Alwynne brought it back. She's like you in some ways, you know. She made me awfully curious @@ -13085,7 +13044,7 @@ anything but black and white."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_342" id="Page_ <p>"Oh, she's quite right, Roger, though I expect she was in a temper when she said it. But it only means that Alwynne has been trained to listen to women. She can't follow men yet. She has been advised that they are -grown-up children and that her rôle is to be superior but tactful."</p> +grown-up children and that her rôle is to be superior but tactful."</p> <p>He chuckled.</p> @@ -13117,7 +13076,7 @@ her pretty well."</p> <p>"Yes. But how can she affect Alwynne and me? Of course I know what a lot Alwynne thinks of her. She's rather delightful on the subject. Thinks -her perfection, and so on. Alwynne is naïve; conveys more than she knows +her perfection, and so on. Alwynne is naïve; conveys more than she knows or intends, sometimes. And she never looks at her god's feet, does she? 'Clare' and 'Clare' and 'Clare.' Personally, I imagine her a bit of a brute."</p> @@ -14685,7 +14644,7 @@ get me into another row?"</p> <p>She spoke ungraciously enough, for she disliked having to ask a favour of him at such a juncture; but she disliked even more the notion of a -<i>tête-à-tête</i> lunch with Elsbeth. Elsbeth, by right of aunthood, would +<i>tête-à -tête</i> lunch with Elsbeth. Elsbeth, by right of aunthood, would ask questions, demand confession.... Elsbeth, she knew instinctively, would be on Roger's side.... She told herself that she did not mind being bullied by Roger, because, after all, it was Roger's affair; but @@ -15360,7 +15319,7 @@ she should continue, when a violent rat-tat, hushing immediately to a tremulous tat-a-tat-tat, as if the success of the attack upon Clare's door had proved a little startling to the knocker, announced a visitor, and to their mutual astonishment, Elsbeth Loveday fluttered into the -room. Though Elsbeth's naïve amazement at herself and her own courage +room. Though Elsbeth's naïve amazement at herself and her own courage was more apparent, it was scarcely greater than Clare's politely veiled surprise at the invasion, for since Alwynne's attempts to reconcile the oil and water of their reluctant personalities had ceased with her @@ -16016,381 +15975,6 @@ shifting passions of relief and longing and sheer crude lust for revenge.)</p> </div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Regiment of Women, by Clemence Dane - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REGIMENT OF WOMEN *** - -***** This file should be named 40264-h.htm or 40264-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/2/6/40264/ - -Produced by David Starner, Veronika Redfern and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from images made available by the -HathiTrust Digital Library.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions 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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