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diff --git a/40594-h/40594-h.htm b/40594-h/40594-h.htm index 6cd189d..a0952cc 100644 --- a/40594-h/40594-h.htm +++ b/40594-h/40594-h.htm @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ <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 Into The Highways & Hedges, by F. F. Montrésor. + The Project Gutenberg eBook of Into The Highways & Hedges, by F. F. Montrésor. </title> <style type="text/css"> @@ -178,44 +178,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Into the Highways and Hedges, by -F. F. Montrésor (Frances Frederica) - -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: Into the Highways and Hedges - -Author: F. F. Montrésor (Frances Frederica) - -Release Date: August 27, 2012 [EBook #40594] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES *** - - - - -Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40594 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -225,7 +188,7 @@ Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net <h1><span class="smcap">Into the Highways & Hedges</span></h1> -<h2>BY <span class="smcap">F. F. Montrésor</span></h2> +<h2>BY <span class="smcap">F. F. Montrésor</span></h2> <p class="center"><i>SEVENTH EDITION</i></p> @@ -467,7 +430,7 @@ gaunt hungry figure "just outside," who might creep again into her room and stand by her with freezing hands and frost-bitten feet,—a sort of embodied and revengeful poverty.</p> -<p>Nursery days ended under the new régime, and the pretty spoilt baby +<p>Nursery days ended under the new régime, and the pretty spoilt baby developed into a shy little schoolroom girl, who curtsied demurely, and spoke in a whisper when she appeared with her sisters in the drawing-room, for a terrible half-hour before dinner.</p> @@ -753,7 +716,7 @@ become in some measure her father's confidante.</p> that delighted him; she brightened when he entered the room, and responded eagerly to his lightest humour.</p> -<p>There was no <i>arrière pensée</i> in her adaptability. Meg loved her father +<p>There was no <i>arrière pensée</i> in her adaptability. Meg loved her father and hated her aunt, and made no secret of either feeling; but hers was not a nature to lay plots, and she would have been astonished had she guessed how often her aunt had said bitterly of late that "Margaret was @@ -813,7 +776,7 @@ feet, and have your hands always full of gold!" cried the beggar. But somehow the blessing sounded to Meg like a curse, and the envious hunger in the tramp's eyes made her shudder. "I hope some one else will give you more—it is all I have with me," she said gently, and stood looking -after her <i>protégée</i> as she trudged off.</p> +after her <i>protégée</i> as she trudged off.</p> <p>The woman was less lucky in her next appeal. The "'Arries" whom she persecuted were inclined to chaff her, whereupon she responded with a @@ -1546,7 +1509,7 @@ example."</p> <p>"Oh no; we couldn't have them," said Mr. Deane hastily. "You know, sis, a very small dose of county magnates goes a long way with me. I don't mind a ball for once, but I couldn't live in their set; besides, Meg -swears that she will be perfectly happy in a prolonged <i>tête-à-tête</i>."</p> +swears that she will be perfectly happy in a prolonged <i>tête-à -tête</i>."</p> <p>"Yes?" said his sister. She smiled, but a little doubtfully. "It would hardly be fair on her to take her at her word," she remarked. "And I @@ -2764,7 +2727,7 @@ to me. I don't want my gratitude spoilt by that kind of nonsense; characteristic chuckle. Meg had an impatience of any approach to love-making, that was more boyish than girlish; and the least attempt at sentiment was enough to chill her rather doubtful liking for her -father's quondam <i>protégé</i>.</p> +father's quondam <i>protégé</i>.</p> <p>"I really am in earnest!" she cried. "Don't laugh at me! Aunt Russelthorpe has been saying things I cannot repeat: she says other @@ -3683,7 +3646,7 @@ it in as few words as possible.</p> <p>"Put not your trust in women," said George, with rather a futile attempt at flippancy, when he had heard the end. "What a fool I've been! I thought I had bought all my experience in that line years ago. Oh well! -it's done now, and the sweetest <i>ingénue</i> in the world won't take me in +it's done now, and the sweetest <i>ingénue</i> in the world won't take me in again."</p> <p>Mr. Russelthorpe looked up sharply. "I suppose when a man's hurt he must @@ -3733,7 +3696,7 @@ in,—to his own undoing, as he felt just then.</p> <p>At that moment he found it hard to look at things calmly, or to consider that, after all, a love affair was an episode he would get over; whereas the advantages he had derived from an intimacy with the Deanes were -solid and lasting, the <i>entrée</i> to Mr. Deane's house having been a +solid and lasting, the <i>entrée</i> to Mr. Deane's house having been a decided step upwards on the social ladder. Mr. Russelthorpe made no reply, and George took up his hat.</p> @@ -3880,7 +3843,7 @@ on end if she could have seen that entertainment.</p> <p>Mrs. Sauls enjoyed it as much as any one; but when the company had gone off hilariously, and George, having seen his guests out of the hall -door, returned for a <i>tête-à-tête</i> with her,—then she tasted the +door, returned for a <i>tête-à -tête</i> with her,—then she tasted the crowning felicity of the evening.</p> <p>George always paid his mother the compliment of talking to her about his @@ -6123,7 +6086,7 @@ at the market-place of N——, the landlord of the "Pig and Whistle" ca panting up to him with a letter. To his great surprise it was from Mr. Deane, and written in a very shaky hand.</p> -<p>"I am tied to Lupcombe by an attack of hæmorrhage. I can't write long +<p>"I am tied to Lupcombe by an attack of hæmorrhage. I can't write long explanations, but think I am rather bad. I hear you are at N——; if so, can you come to me? There is business——"</p> @@ -9650,7 +9613,7 @@ liked him a shade the better for that last unsaintly speech.</p> <p>"I am afraid the preacher would have got the best of it, though I am not a weakling," he reflected. "He would have liked to put me on my back too. He didn't enjoy having to refuse that fight and play the peaceful -<i>rôle</i>, in spite of 'not being wishful for my good opinion'. Is he, +<i>rôle</i>, in spite of 'not being wishful for my good opinion'. Is he, after all, more fanatic than hypocrite? Can he be——Hallo! where am I getting to?"</p> @@ -12043,7 +12006,7 @@ am learning all sorts of things," she wrote.</p> long months of waiting for the assizes.</p> <p>She became a familiar figure in the "prison crowd." Most of the -<i>habitués</i> of the outer yard knew her by sight, and many of them knew +<i>habitués</i> of the outer yard knew her by sight, and many of them knew her story as well (though she could not imagine how it had got about), and they would stare at the "lydy," with amused and generally very kindly curiosity.</p> @@ -13177,7 +13140,7 @@ doubt it served him right.</p> <p>After dinner, they played cards; and she lost heavily, and took no pleasure in the game. Usually she was keenly interested; though it was an understood thing, that when she won, the stakes were merely nominal, -and that when Benjamin won, they were <i>bonâ fide</i>. Mr. Benjamin swept +and that when Benjamin won, they were <i>bonâ fide</i>. Mr. Benjamin swept them up very comfortably to-night.</p> <p>The candles in the heavy gold candlesticks had burnt down pretty low @@ -13880,7 +13843,7 @@ reader at one time). Then the feeble voice grew fainter, and presently he slept. During his sleep he effectually escaped, neither grating nor gaolers having power to stay him this time.</p> -<p>His <i>rôle</i> was played out, and delivered up to the Author of potentates +<p>His <i>rôle</i> was played out, and delivered up to the Author of potentates and beggars; of the few who succeed, and the many who fail. Barnabas closed Hopping Jack's eyes gently—having a weak place in his own composition for failures—then stood upright.</p> @@ -14531,7 +14494,7 @@ of it.</p> <p>It was a luxurious room—the room of a rich man, with a good idea of comfort. All the chairs were delightfully easy, the carpet was thick and soft, the light arranged with a view to reading and writing comfortably. -Artistic it was not, and there was no bric-à-brac, and there were few +Artistic it was not, and there was no bric-à -brac, and there were few books about.</p> <p>Over the mantelpiece was the picture of an undraped nymph, lying on soft @@ -14831,7 +14794,7 @@ I shall repent."</p> dramatic as had been expected. A rumour had, somehow, got about as to the finding of the jewels. It had been whispered that George Sauls was going to enter the witness box again, and startle every one with a grand -<i>coup de théâtre</i>. But nothing of the sort happened. No additional +<i>coup de théâtre</i>. But nothing of the sort happened. No additional evidence was forthcoming. The judge, in summing up, pointed to the fact of the prosecutor's pockets having been rifled, as indicating that greed, rather than vengeance, had prompted the crime. The prisoner's @@ -15289,7 +15252,7 @@ INTO THE HIGHWAYS and HEDGES</p> <p><b>Academy.</b></p> -<p>"This book is so admirably conceived and written that Mr. Montrésor's +<p>"This book is so admirably conceived and written that Mr. Montrésor's next venture must excite unusual interest."</p> <p><b>Speaker.</b></p> @@ -15297,7 +15260,7 @@ next venture must excite unusual interest."</p> <p>"This book will undoubtedly rank high amongst the notable novels of 1895."</p> -<p><b>Athenæum.</b></p> +<p><b>Athenæum.</b></p> <p>"Whoever wrote 'Into the Highways and Hedges' wrote no common novel. A touch of idealism, of nobility of thought and purpose, mingled with an @@ -15321,7 +15284,7 @@ this book, which I advise every one to read." (<i>Katherine Tynan.</i>)</p> <p><b>Manchester Courier.</b></p> -<p>"Mr. Montrésor's next book will be eagerly awaited by all those who make +<p>"Mr. Montrésor's next book will be eagerly awaited by all those who make the acquaintance of his first, for a more strikingly original or a stronger novel has not appeared for some time."</p> @@ -15348,386 +15311,6 @@ there has not, perhaps, been quite so successful a portrait of a man or woman consumed by the passion of humanity. The dialogue throughout the book is excellent."</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Into the Highways and Hedges, by -F. F. 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