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diff --git a/40375-h/40375-h.htm b/40375-h/40375-h.htm index 1547c4f..65dce04 100644 --- a/40375-h/40375-h.htm +++ b/40375-h/40375-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 The London Venture, by Michael Arlen. @@ -169,47 +169,7 @@ div.tnote { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The London Venture, by Michael Arlen - -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/license - - -Title: The London Venture - -Author: Michael Arlen - -Illustrator: Michel Sevier - -Release Date: July 31, 2012 [EBook #40375] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONDON VENTURE *** - - - - -Produced by Clarity, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40375 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 481px;"> <img class="border" src="images/Arlen_front_cover.jpg" width="481" height="700" alt="book cover" title="book cover" /> @@ -360,7 +320,7 @@ cinema posters, whose duty it is to attract and insult with the crude portrayal of the indecent passions of tiresome people. If there be a studio in purgatory for indiscreet -æsthetics, Rhadamanthus could do no +æsthetics, Rhadamanthus could do no better than paper its walls with illustrations of "The Blindness of Love," or "Is Love Lust?" For it is now a London of coloured @@ -502,7 +462,7 @@ aunts who live in Chester Square, and cousins who come up to stay a month or so at the Hyde Park Hotel, and uncles who live somewhere about Bruton Street, and have -such a fund of <i>risqué</i> anecdotes that the +such a fund of <i>risqué</i> anecdotes that the length of Bond Street and Piccadilly will not see the end of them; and, perhaps, there are age-long friends of the family who have @@ -815,7 +775,7 @@ something which should have no end; a falling away, a premature decay which is like a growing cloud soon to cover the whole mind.... Shelmerdene, do you know the story of -the Dán-nan-Rón, which Fiona Macleod +the Dán-nan-Rón, which Fiona Macleod tells? How there lived three brothers on the isle of Eilanmore: Marcus, who was "the Eilanmore," and Gloom, whose voice "was @@ -829,12 +789,12 @@ and men were afraid of the cold, white notes of his barbaric runes, as he played his <i>feadan</i> from rock to rock and on the seashore, but most of all they feared the playing of the -Dán-nan-Rón, which is the Song of the Seal +Dán-nan-Rón, which is the Song of the Seal and calls men to their death in the sea. And when the eldest brother Marcus was killed with the throwing of a knife, the murderer heard the woods of Gloom, which said that -he would hear the Dán-nan-Rón the night +he would hear the Dán-nan-Rón the night before he died, and lest he should doubt those words, he would hear it again in the very hour of his death. It happened as @@ -844,7 +804,7 @@ down into the sea, and as he battled madly in the water, and the blood gushed out of his body as the teeth of seals tore the life out of him, he heard from far away the cold, -white notes of the Dán-nan-Rón.</p> +white notes of the Dán-nan-Rón.</p> <p class="indent">This tale always brings to me that many men, in some sudden moment which even @@ -1037,7 +997,7 @@ is at last tired of playing at life, to be the whom she, at the weary end, with but a look back at the long-passed procession of <i>ci-devants</i>, will thankfully give herself. <i>Dies -iræ, dies illa....</i></p> +iræ, dies illa....</i></p> <hr class="hr2"/> @@ -2013,14 +1973,14 @@ the rehearsals of a ballet, have marvelled at <span class="pagenum"><a name="page081" id="page081"></a>[pg 081]</span> other things than the architecture of Spanish-Gothic cathedrals? Ah, I have the secret -of you! You are a mediæval, a knight of +of you! You are a mediæval, a knight of old exotic times, a Sir Lancelot without -naïveté. Now, as the years take you, it is +naïveté. Now, as the years take you, it is only in your drawings that your mind runs cynically riot among the indiscretions of literature—what a sinister inner gleam I espied in you when you told me that you -were going to illustrate the poems of François +were going to illustrate the poems of François Villon! But in Paris, long ago, I see you, Nikolay, standing in the curtained doorway of a cushion-spread studio, where the @@ -2159,7 +2119,7 @@ of my many ludicrous fancies about my friend this was indeed the most ludicrous, for I had caught myself thinking that he was not really a man at all, but just part of a -drawing by Félicien Rops....</p> +drawing by Félicien Rops....</p> <hr class="hr2"/> @@ -3051,7 +3011,7 @@ though as we grew to prefects that same face aired so absolute a nonchalance that, together with my rather sophisticated features, we thoroughly deserved the title of -the <i>blasted roués</i>. However, at that time, +the <i>blasted roués</i>. However, at that time, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page126" id="page126"></a>[pg 126]</span> we were not prefects, but "new bugs," though Louis was by one term a newer "bug" than @@ -3258,7 +3218,7 @@ were jolly, sudden evenings, those! London was still careless then. Of an evening, a couple of young men in dress suits with top hats balanced over their eyebrows and eyes -full of a <i>blasé</i> vacancy, were not as remarkable +full of a <i>blasé</i> vacancy, were not as remarkable as they now are. Life has lost its whilom courtesy to a top hat. Red flags and top hats cannot exist side by side; the @@ -3301,14 +3261,14 @@ and we dined right royally. I don't know what we talked about, perhaps we talked of nothing at all; but we talked all the time, and we laughed a great deal, and -we still had the good old "<i>blasted roué</i>" +we still had the good old "<i>blasted roué</i>" touch about us. We were very, very old indeed, so old that we decided that the first <span class="pagenum"><a name="page135" id="page135"></a>[pg 135]</span> act of no play or revue in the world could compensate one for a hurried dinner; and we were old enough to know that a confidential -manner to <i>maitres d'hôtels</i> is a thing to +manner to <i>maitres d'hôtels</i> is a thing to be cultivated, else a chicken is apt to be wizened and the sweet an unconscionable long time in coming. After dinner, a show, @@ -4089,7 +4049,7 @@ like a drug, for as soon as the off-season came again it was at its old tricks with twice its old virulence and malice, and, of course, I gave way again. And so on, and so on—did -you murmur <i>dies iræ</i>, Dikran? Well, +you murmur <i>dies iræ</i>, Dikran? Well, perhaps, but who knows? There's a Perfect Fate for every one in this world, and if any one deserves to find it, it's myself who @@ -4101,8 +4061,8 @@ was, and it had to be satisfied, or else I should have become a good woman, which never did attract me very much. I simply had to amuse myself somehow—and so I formed <i>la grande -idée</i> of my young life, just as Napoleon III -had long ago formed his equally <i>grande idée</i> +idée</i> of my young life, just as Napoleon III +had long ago formed his equally <i>grande idée</i> about Mexico and Maximilian, and with the same disastrous results. True, there was no young man about, but there was a man, anyway, @@ -4242,7 +4202,7 @@ lost. Imagine then, sitting by a window of a large house in the <i>Rue Colbert</i>, a young girl with a battered copy of Madame Bovary skilfully hidden beside her, and a little erect -old man, very stiff but <i>soigné</i>, and cruelly +old man, very stiff but <i>soigné</i>, and cruelly aged by the sunlight which poured blessedly into the room, standing by the arm of her <span class="pagenum"><a name="page171" id="page171"></a>[pg 171]</span> @@ -4252,11 +4212,11 @@ pleading, and of me as surprised. He didn't plead, he couldn't and I, my dear, by the time he had finished, wasn't surprised.... I knew, you see. Why, I knew everything! -Lexicons and encyclopædias had toppled off +Lexicons and encyclopædias had toppled off their dusty shelves, and the Sibylline books had come running to my feet, and the whole world had come trotting out with its wisdom, -wisdom as clear and cold as any Dân-nan-Rón +wisdom as clear and cold as any Dân-nan-Rón that your friend Gloom ever played on his <i>feadan</i>, and all in the few minutes that an old man was speaking to me! Of course, @@ -4305,7 +4265,7 @@ world, and I, only eighteen, in the middle of it! And there he was, my dear old man, more rigid and more adorable than ever; for, cruel as I was in seeing through him, I loved -him all the more for his sweet naïveté and +him all the more for his sweet naïveté and for his old, so old illusions about his motives. While as for being shocked at the way he loved me, I've never been shocked by @@ -4466,7 +4426,7 @@ forgetting it, for what climax could there possibly be?</p> <p class="indent">"Four or five months after that May morning -he took me to stay at a château in +he took me to stay at a château in Brittany; a very beautiful, tumble-down, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page179" id="page179"></a>[pg 179]</span> draughty place, my dear, standing proudly at @@ -4478,7 +4438,7 @@ but a few rakish stones which were once the embattlement from which the Huguenot <i>seigneur</i> of the day defied the old Medici; and the slim, white-haired old woman who -charmingly met me at the door, the châtelaine +charmingly met me at the door, the châtelaine of only one castle, but with the dignity of an empire in her kind, calm elegance. My hostess and my guardian were old, old friends, @@ -4489,20 +4449,20 @@ white-haired, will you come and stay at my place, Dikran, and will you pretend that you have forgotten that you ever liked me for anything else than my mind? Just like those -two old people in the Breton château, who a +two old people in the Breton château, who a thousand years ago may have been lovers or may have only loved one another.... Who knows? and does it matter?</p> <p class="indent">"The idea of this visit, on my guardian's -part, to the solitary château from whose highest +part, to the solitary château from whose highest <span class="pagenum"><a name="page180" id="page180"></a>[pg 180]</span> windows one could just see the sea curling round the Breton coast, was of course excellent. He wanted me to be out of harm's way and entirely his own, and was there any better way of achieving that than by putting -me in a lonely château with only my hostess +me in a lonely château with only my hostess as an alternative to himself? But, poor old dear, it didn't fall out like that; for we had only been there two days when the alternative @@ -4533,7 +4493,7 @@ gates and down into the valley, very much the young lord of the manor, on the huge white stallion which, with such a master, defied a Republic and still proclaimed him as -the <i>Sieur du Château-Mauvrai</i> to the dour +the <i>Sieur du Château-Mauvrai</i> to the dour and morose-minded peasants of the Breton villages....</p> @@ -4621,7 +4581,7 @@ I wanted to plumb this dishonesty of his to the depths, which was very stupid of me because he was much more likely to find out about me than I about him.... Raoul -had been at the château two weeks, and our +had been at the château two weeks, and our little affair had taken the important and unpleasant air of a conspiracy. Our own stay was to last another month, and if it hadn't @@ -4639,7 +4599,7 @@ have bored me if I had let him. But I wanted him, I intended to keep him in my mind; I wanted him as an assertion of my independence from the old man. As we went -back up the drive to the château I carefully +back up the drive to the château I carefully became as animated and smiling as I could, for I knew that he would be watching us from the drawing-room windows, and I @@ -4805,7 +4765,7 @@ I would.</p> had ever been in love with Raoul, I certainly <span class="pagenum"><a name="page191" id="page191"></a>[pg 191]</span> wasn't that morning when we rode away -from the gloomy, silent château, a little +from the gloomy, silent château, a little frightened by our own bravado; for that is all it was. But later, as we reached the sands, I forgot that, I forgot Raoul, though @@ -4975,8 +4935,8 @@ died early the next morning.</p> <p class="indent">"And so you see, Dikran, for all your talk <span class="pagenum"><a name="page197" id="page197"></a>[pg 197]</span> -of <i>dies iræ</i> in the future, I've already had -my <i>dies iræ</i>, and very sadly, too—and been +of <i>dies iræ</i> in the future, I've already had +my <i>dies iræ</i>, and very sadly, too—and been the wiser for it in restraint."</p> <hr /> @@ -5006,389 +4966,7 @@ unless otherwise noted.</p> <p class="indent">On page 19, "distate" was replaced with "distaste".</p> </div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The London Venture, by Michael Arlen - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONDON VENTURE *** - -***** This file should be named 40375-h.htm or 40375-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/3/7/40375/ - -Produced by Clarity, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -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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