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diff --git a/40915-h/40915-h.htm b/40915-h/40915-h.htm index f6d7355..8193a60 100644 --- a/40915-h/40915-h.htm +++ b/40915-h/40915-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <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 Johnny Ludlow, First Series, by Mrs. Henry Wood. @@ -122,45 +122,7 @@ strong {font-variant: small-caps; font-style: normal; </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's Johnny Ludlow. First Series, by Mrs. Henry Wood - -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: Johnny Ludlow. First Series - -Author: Mrs. Henry Wood - -Release Date: October 2, 2012 [EBook #40915] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHNNY LUDLOW. FIRST SERIES *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, eagkw and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40915 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="402" height="610" alt="Cover" /> @@ -14837,7 +14799,7 @@ up in plenty.</p> man on a neighbouring farm; the other was Sandy Lett, a wheelwright in business for himself at Church Dykely. Of course matters ran in this case, as they generally do run in such cases, all cross -and contrary: or, as the French say, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à tort et à travers</i>. George +and contrary: or, as the French say, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à tort et à travers</i>. George Roper, a good-looking young fellow with curly hair and a handsome pair of black whiskers, had not a coin beyond the weekly wages he worked for: he had not so much as a chair to sit in, or @@ -18742,9 +18704,9 @@ manners, and Hannah pursued her way.</p> <p>The road thus paved for it, North Crabb church was not taken by surprise when it heard the marriage banns read out one Sunday morning between Louis Roe, of the parish of St. Swithin, Worcester -(he was staying there at the time), and Henriette Adèle Marie Roe. +(he was staying there at the time), and Henriette Adèle Marie Roe. Miss Timmens, who had not been taken into confidence, started -violently; Mademoiselle Henriette Adèle Marie, sitting by her side, +violently; Mademoiselle Henriette Adèle Marie, sitting by her side, held up her head and her blooming cheeks with unruffled equanimity. It was said there was a scene when they got home: Miss Timmens’s sister (once Mrs. Garth, but then our bailiff’s wife, @@ -19840,7 +19802,7 @@ for it, we did not hear. And a paradise it was when you were inside, if decorations and mirrors can make one. Men and women in evening dress sang songs in a kind of orchestra; to which you might listen sitting and smoking or lounging about and talking: if -you preferred a rubber at whist or a hand at écarté in another +you preferred a rubber at whist or a hand at écarté in another room, there you had it. Never a thing was there, apparently, that the Squire could reasonably have grumbled at, except the risk of losing money at cards, and the sense of intoxicating pleasure. But @@ -20374,7 +20336,7 @@ Gusty asked me what I wanted; but he spoke quite civilly.</p> <p>“I came to see after you all. Richard said you were here.”</p> <p>What they had been playing at, I don’t know: whether whist, -écarté, loo, or what. Tod, as usual, had been losing frightfully: I +écarté, loo, or what. Tod, as usual, had been losing frightfully: I could see that. Gusty was smoking; Crayton, cool as a cucumber, drank hard at brandy-and-soda. If that man had swallowed a barrel of cognac, he would never have shown it. Temply and @@ -22110,7 +22072,7 @@ weeks, or so: for we had not happened to meet him since that visit of mine and Tod’s at his house in Kensington. All the family were back again now at Parrifer Hall: and we were going to a grand entertainment there on the following day, Thursday. An open-air -fête, the invitations had said.</p> +fête, the invitations had said.</p> <p>“You have been very busy lately, Mr. Clement-Pell,” observed the Squire. “I’ve not been able to get to see you to thank you @@ -22140,7 +22102,7 @@ for us business men.”</p> refreshment on Mr. Clement-Pell. He’d have nothing to say to the cider—it would make him hotter, he thought—but took some<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_391" id="Page_391">[391]</a></span> of the lemonade. As he was putting the glass down Mrs. Todhetley -asked whether to-morrow’s fête was to be as grand and large as +asked whether to-morrow’s fête was to be as grand and large as was reported. And the annoyance, seen before, most certainly again crossed Clement-Pell’s face at the question.</p> @@ -22205,7 +22167,7 @@ His <em>face</em> looks grey.”</p> <p>“It was the reflection of these green leaves, good mother.”</p> <p>“Well—perhaps it might be,” she doubtfully agreed, looking -up. “What a grand fête it is to be, Johnny!”</p> +up. “What a grand fête it is to be, Johnny!”</p> <p>“You’ll have to put on your best bib-and-tucker, good mother. That new dress you bought for the Sterlings’ christening.”</p> @@ -22217,7 +22179,7 @@ when to-morrow comes.”</p> <p>“I wouldn’t be you, then. That will be too bad.”</p> -<p>“These open-air fêtes are not in our way, Johnny. Dancing, +<p>“These open-air fêtes are not in our way, Johnny. Dancing, and archery, and fortune-telling are not much in the way of us old people. You young ones think them delightful—as we did once. Hugh! Lena! what <em>is</em> all that noise about? You are not to take @@ -22514,7 +22476,7 @@ dancers; Bill and Helen went to the archery.</p> <p>The voice nearly shot me off the arm of the bench. For it was Mr. Brandon’s. I don’t think there was any living man I should have -been so surprised at seeing at the fête as he.</p> +been so surprised at seeing at the fête as he.</p> <p>“Why! is it you, sir?”</p> @@ -22594,7 +22556,7 @@ dress, but theirs seemed to strike him.</p> and the corks and the laughter! Look at the people, and the folly!”</p> -<p>“Don’t you like the fête, sir?”</p> +<p>“Don’t you like the fête, sir?”</p> <p>“Johnny, I hate it with my whole heart.”</p> @@ -23192,7 +23154,7 @@ GETTING AWAY.</h2> <p>You have heard of the avalanches that fall without warning and -crush luckless dwellers in the Swiss mountains; and of mälströms +crush luckless dwellers in the Swiss mountains; and of mälströms that suddenly swallow up vessels sailing jauntily along on a calm sea; and of railway trains, filled with happy passengers, that one minute are running smoothly and safely along, and the next are @@ -23213,7 +23175,7 @@ him sick only to recall. It had been a fierce, continuous, secret battle; and it had nearly worn him out, and turned his face and his hair grey before their time.</p> -<p>On the day following this fête-night, Friday, Clement-Pell took +<p>On the day following this fête-night, Friday, Clement-Pell took the train and was at his chief Bank early. He held his interview with Mr. Johnson; he saw other people; and his manner was free and open as usual. On this next day, Saturday, he had been denied @@ -23334,7 +23296,7 @@ were only business liabilities. At his elbow lay a pile of bills: domestic and family debts. House rent, taxes, horses, carriages, servants’ wages, bills for food, bills for attire: all running back a long while; for no one had pressed Clement-Pell. The outlay for -the fête might well have been profuse, since none of it was ever paid +the fête might well have been profuse, since none of it was ever paid for. Beside the bills lay letters from Fabian and Gusty—wanting money as usual. To all these he scarcely gave a thought; they were as nothing. Even though he were made bankrupt upon them, @@ -23364,7 +23326,7 @@ smell of burning was. He let her in, and bolted the door again.</p> <p>How far Mrs. Clement-Pell had been acquainted with his position, never came out to the world. That she must have known something of it was thought to be certain; and perhaps the additional -launching out lately—the sojourn at Kensington, the fête, and all +launching out lately—the sojourn at Kensington, the fête, and all the rest of it—had only been entered upon to disarm suspicion. Shut up together in that room, they no doubt planned together the getting-away. That Mrs. Clement-Pell fought against their leaving @@ -23490,10 +23452,10 @@ get to hear it. He’d sue you for defamation.”</p> <p>“He’d be welcome,” nodded old Brandon, in his thin voice, as he stood, whip in hand, against the window.</p> -<p>“The grand fête of last Thursday,” gasped Mrs. Todhetley—who +<p>“The grand fête of last Thursday,” gasped Mrs. Todhetley—who had been puzzling her brains over Sam Rimmer’s master’s book, the writing in which could never be deciphered. “Surely the -Clement-Pells would not have given that fête had things been going +Clement-Pells would not have given that fête had things been going wrong with them.”</p> <p>“And poured iced champagne, unlimited, down folk’s throats; @@ -24052,7 +24014,7 @@ not been written to.</p> <p>“I don’t know,” he said. “I have been moving about Scotland: perhaps a letter of theirs may have miscarried; and I suppose my later letters did not reach them. The last letter I had was from -Constance, giving me an account of some grand fête here that had +Constance, giving me an account of some grand fête here that had taken place the previous day.”</p> <p>“Yes. I was at it with Todhetley and the Whitneys. The—the @@ -24336,9 +24298,9 @@ and talked often with our French master at Dr. Frost’s: but you must not think I was as fluent in it as though I’d been a born Frenchman. It was rather the other way.</p> -<p>We put up at the Hôtel des Bains. A good hotel—as is well +<p>We put up at the Hôtel des Bains. A good hotel—as is well known—but nothing to look at from the street. Mr. Brandon had -been in Boulogne before, and always used it. The <em>table d’hôte</em> +been in Boulogne before, and always used it. The <em>table d’hôte</em> restored the Squire’s colour and spirits together: and by the time<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_431" id="Page_431">[431]</a></span> dinner was over, he felt ready to encounter the sea again. As to Mr. Brandon, he made his meal of some watery broth, two slices of @@ -24381,7 +24343,7 @@ but we seemed to be no nearer hearing anything of the Clement-Pells. So far as that went, the time was being wasted: but I don’t think any of us cared much about that. We kept our eyes open, looking out for them, and asked questions in a quiet way: -at the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">établissement</i>, where the dancing went on; at the libraries; +at the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">établissement</i>, where the dancing went on; at the libraries; and of the pew women at the churches. No; no success: and time went on to the second week in October. On account of the remarkably fine weather, the season and amusements were protracted.</p> @@ -24429,7 +24391,7 @@ several times, I am sure she did not see me.</p> the gateway of the Upper Town, through the Upper Town itself, and out by another gateway. I thought she was never going to stop. Away further yet, to the neighbourhood of a little place -called Mâquétra—but I am not sure that I spell the word properly. +called Mâquétra—but I am not sure that I spell the word properly. There she turned into a small house that had a garden before it.</p> @@ -24478,7 +24440,7 @@ to the hotel, I could not find either of them. Mr. Brandon might be taking a warm sea-bath, the waiters thought, and the Squire a cold one. I went about to every likely place, and went in vain. The dinner-bell was ringing when they got in—tired to death; -having been for some prolonged ramble over beyond Capécure. +having been for some prolonged ramble over beyond Capécure. I told them in their rooms while they were washing their hands—but as to stirring in it before dinner, both were too exhausted for it.</p> @@ -24565,7 +24527,7 @@ worsted slippers that stood in the narrow passage. My belief was she thought we wanted to look over the house with a view to taking it.</p> -<p>“It was small, but great enough for a salle à manger,” she said, +<p>“It was small, but great enough for a salle à manger,” she said, showing the room behind—a little place that had literally nothing in it but an oval dining-table, some matting, and six common chairs against the walls. Upstairs were four bedrooms, bare also. As to @@ -24593,8 +24555,8 @@ Mathilde, in answer to questions, readily told all she knew.</p> <p>About six weeks ago, she thought it was—but no, it must be seven, now she remembered—Madame Brown and the four Mees -Browns took this house of the propriétaire, one Monsieur Bourgeois, -marchand d’épicerie, and engaged her as servant, recommended +Browns took this house of the propriétaire, one Monsieur Bourgeois, +marchand d’épicerie, and engaged her as servant, recommended to Madame by M. Bourgeois. Madame and the young ladies had lived very quietly, giving but little trouble; entrusted her to do all the commissions at the butcher’s and elsewhere, and never @@ -24602,7 +24564,7 @@ questioned her fidelity in the matter of the sous received in change at market. The previous day when she got home with some pork and sausages, which she was going after when the young gentlemans spoke to her—nodding to me—Madame was all -bouleversée; first because Mees Constance had been down to the +bouleversée; first because Mees Constance had been down to the town, which Madame did not like her to do; next because of a letter——</p> @@ -24628,7 +24590,7 @@ she supposed, while she was gone to the pork-shop; it told Madame the triste news of the illness of a dear relative; and Madame had to leave at once, in consequence. There was confusion. Madame and the young ladies packing, and she (Mathilde), when her dinner -had been cooked and eaten, running quick for the propriétaire, +had been cooked and eaten, running quick for the propriétaire, who came back with her. Madame paid him up to the end of the next week, when the month would be finished and—that was all.</p> @@ -24643,7 +24605,7 @@ M. Bourgeois.”</p> <p>“Refer him for what?”</p> <p>“Nay, I not ask, monsieur. For the information, I conclude, of -where Madame go and why she go. Madame talk to the propriétaire +where Madame go and why she go. Madame talk to the propriétaire with the salon door shut.”</p> <p>So that was all we got. Mathilde readily gave M. Bourgeois’s @@ -24703,7 +24665,7 @@ box. “One cannot put old heads upon young shoulders.”</p> <hr class="l3" /> <p>Sunday morning. After breakfast I and Mr. Brandon were -standing under the porte-cochère, looking about us. At the banking +standing under the porte-cochère, looking about us. At the banking house opposite; at a man going into the chemist’s shop with his hand tied up; at the marchand-de-coco with his gay attire and jingling bells and noisy tra-la-la-la: at anything, in short, there @@ -24828,7 +24790,7 @@ crowd; saw Mr. Brandon, and whispered to him. He nodded quietly; as much as to say he thought Pell would come.</p> <p>“Johnny, we must follow him: but we must not let him see us on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_440" id="Page_440">[440]</a></span> -any account. I dare say he is going all the way up to Mâquétra—or +any account. I dare say he is going all the way up to Mâquétra—or whatever you call the place.”</p> <p>Making our way round to the door by which the passengers were @@ -24849,16 +24811,16 @@ other English. But the coach drove off at last.</p> to do without church this morning. Mind you make the coachman understand what he is to do.”</p> -<p>“Suivez cette voiture qui vient de partir; mais pas trop près.” +<p>“Suivez cette voiture qui vient de partir; mais pas trop près.” The man gave back a hearty “Oui, monsieur,” as if he understood the case.</p> <p>It was a slow journey. The first coach did not hurry itself, and took by-ways to its destination. It turned into the Rue de la -Coupe, opposite our hotel, went through the Rue de l’Hôpital, and +Coupe, opposite our hotel, went through the Rue de l’Hôpital, and thence to regions unknown. All I knew was, we went up a hill worse than that of the Grande Rue, and arrived circuitously at -Mâquétra. Mr. Brandon had stretched his head out as we passed +Mâquétra. Mr. Brandon had stretched his head out as we passed the hotel, but could not see the Squire.</p> <p>“It’s his affair, you know, Johnny. Not mine.”</p> @@ -24872,7 +24834,7 @@ a strangely perplexed, blank expression on his face as he listened to her explanation.</p> <p>“Yes, monsieur, it is sure they are depart; it is but the morning -of yesterday. The propriétaire, he have the letter for you that +of yesterday. The propriétaire, he have the letter for you that Madame confide to him. He—Tiens, voici encore ces Messieurs!”</p> <p>Surprise at our appearance must have caused her change of @@ -26291,7 +26253,7 @@ Journal.</span><span class="pagenum">[2]</span></p> <p class="st">ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH THOUSAND.</p> <p>“‘The Channings’ will probably be read over and over again, and it can -never be read too often.”—<span class="smcap">The Athenæum.</span></p> +never be read too often.”—<span class="smcap">The Athenæum.</span></p> <hr class="l9" /> @@ -26386,7 +26348,7 @@ her successive dramas.”—<span class="smcap">Standard.</span></p> <p>“It is an agreeable change to come upon a book like Johnny Ludlow.”—<span class="smcap">Saturday Review.</span></p> -<p>“Vigour of description and a strong grasp of character.”—<span class="smcap">Athenæum.</span></p> +<p>“Vigour of description and a strong grasp of character.”—<span class="smcap">Athenæum.</span></p> <p>“The Author has given proof of a rarer dramatic instinct than we had suspected among our living writers of fiction.”—<span class="smcap">Noncomformist.</span></p> @@ -26502,10 +26464,10 @@ an intricate and carefully woven plot.”—<span class="smcap">The Morn <p>“One of Mrs. Henry Wood’s best novels.”—<span class="smcap">The Star.</span></p> -<p>“Mme. Henry Wood est fort célèbre en Angleterre, et ses romans—très -moraux et très bien écrits—sont dans toutes les mains et revivent dans toutes les -mémoires. <cite>Le serment de lady Adelaïde</cite> donneront à nos lecteurs une idée très suffisante -du talent si élevé de mistress Henry Wood.”—<span class="smcap">L’Instruction Publique.</span><span class="pagenum">[7]</span></p> +<p>“Mme. Henry Wood est fort célèbre en Angleterre, et ses romans—très +moraux et très bien écrits—sont dans toutes les mains et revivent dans toutes les +mémoires. <cite>Le serment de lady Adelaïde</cite> donneront à nos lecteurs une idée très suffisante +du talent si élevé de mistress Henry Wood.”—<span class="smcap">L’Instruction Publique.</span><span class="pagenum">[7]</span></p> <hr class="l9" /> @@ -26535,7 +26497,7 @@ extracts to convey any adequate sense of the humour, the pathos, the dramatic power and graphic description of this book.”—<span class="smcap">The Noncomformist.</span></p> <p>“Mrs. Henry Wood has made a welcome addition to the list of the works -of contemporary fiction.”—<span class="smcap">Athenæum</span> (<i>second notice</i>).</p> +of contemporary fiction.”—<span class="smcap">Athenæum</span> (<i>second notice</i>).</p> <p>“These most exquisite studies.”—<span class="smcap">Noncomformist</span> (<i>second notice</i>).</p> @@ -26620,9 +26582,9 @@ Illustrated Times.</span></p> <p>“We always open one of Mrs. Wood’s novels with pleasure, because we are sure of being amused and interested.”—<span class="smcap">The Times.</span></p> -<p>“Lisez-le; l’émotion que vous sentirez peu à peu monter à votre cœur est -saine et fortifiante. Lisez-le; c’est un livre honnête sorti d’une plume honnête -et vous pourrez le laisser traîner sur la table.”—<span class="smcap">Le Signal</span><span class="pagenum">[9]</span> (<i>Paris</i>).</p> +<p>“Lisez-le; l’émotion que vous sentirez peu à peu monter à votre cœur est +saine et fortifiante. Lisez-le; c’est un livre honnête sorti d’une plume honnête +et vous pourrez le laisser traîner sur la table.”—<span class="smcap">Le Signal</span><span class="pagenum">[9]</span> (<i>Paris</i>).</p> <hr class="l9" /> @@ -26650,7 +26612,7 @@ endows her pages with a vitality which carries the reader to the end, and leaves him with the feeling that the veil which in real life separates man from man has been raised, and that he has for once seen and known certain people as intimately as if he had been their guardian angel. This is a great fascination.”—<span class="smcap">The -Athenæum.</span></p> +Athenæum.</span></p> <hr class="l9" /> @@ -26795,387 +26757,6 @@ Todhetley.)<br /> and hyphenation.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Johnny Ludlow. First Series, by Mrs. Henry Wood - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHNNY LUDLOW. 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