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Whyte-Melville - -Release Date: November 20, 2012 [EBook #41418] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONTRABAND *** - - - - -Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41418 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/tp.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -1330,7 +1291,7 @@ nor the look in his meek brown eyes when I kissed him and wished him good-bye. I remember I cried for two hours, and 'Aunty' thought it was at parting with her. She scolded me without pity; but even then I was wise enough to know she would have reviled me still more bitterly had I -told her the truth. How I hated that school at Dieppe, the <i>café au +told her the truth. How I hated that school at Dieppe, the <i>café au lait</i>, the long rolls of bread, the <i>bouilli</i>, and the fast days. The lessons I didn't so much mind, but the 'recreations,' as they called them, I thought would have driven me mad! I was quite a little girl when @@ -1358,7 +1319,7 @@ needle-work, that I didn't know fully better than my instructors. So I ran away. I am ashamed to tell you how I managed it—what lies I told, what feelings I simulated, what smiles I lavished to induce a young man, whom I had only seen three times and spoken with twice, to assist me in -my flight. He called it 'un enlèvement;' but I think I managed all the +my flight. He called it 'un enlèvement;' but I think I managed all the details, and had, therefore, the less difficulty in giving him the slip within an hour of my escape from prison. He was a 'friseur,' I believe. He told me he was an artist. I certainly shouldn't have known him again @@ -1375,7 +1336,7 @@ felt that I could afford to make my own bargain with an employer, whatever might be the task or the terms.</p> <p>"Perhaps it was because I could do without it for the moment, that I -obtained an engagement the same day to sing at one of the 'Cafés +obtained an engagement the same day to sing at one of the 'Cafés Chantants' that abound in the outskirts of Paris. In a low dress, at sixteen, singing to two hundred people I had never seen before, I give you my word I wasn't the least shy. Truth to tell, my blood was up. I @@ -1505,7 +1466,7 @@ in the hands of his good friend, the Manager, with whom, as he had made a point of arranging, I could place myself advantageously at once. With regard to the boy, he added, I must consult my own feelings; but so long as a noble institution was supported by the State for the reception of -<i>enfants trouvés</i>, he could not charge himself with the support of us +<i>enfants trouvés</i>, he could not charge himself with the support of us both. The Manager was an excellent man, in the prime of life, and he wished me much happiness in the successful career in which, thanks to his care and provision, I could now embark.</p> @@ -1613,7 +1574,7 @@ of mine. <i>Monsieur le Commissaire</i>, with supreme good taste, chose the hour in which he made me this communication, to couple with it a proposal that did not increase my respect for himself or his sex. You may imagine I did not even yet relax my endeavours to find out something -certain about my boy. I went to the Mayor, the Préfet; in my desolation, +certain about my boy. I went to the Mayor, the Préfet; in my desolation, I even wrote to my old admirer, the Manager, in Paris. On all sides I met with the same treatment; civility, compliment, egoism, and utter heartlessness. In time I came to think that there was not only nothing @@ -1621,7 +1582,7 @@ heartlessness. In time I came to think that there was not only nothing say I was a tigress robbed of her cub; as I am only practical, I call myself simply a woman of the world, whom the world has hardened; cunning, because deceived; pitiless, because ill-treated; heartless, -because <i>désillusionée</i>. You have taken me in, and tamed me for a time, +because <i>désillusionée</i>. You have taken me in, and tamed me for a time, but nothing will change my nature now.</p> <p>"The rest of my history you know; the depths to which I sank, the @@ -1650,7 +1611,7 @@ fray!'"</p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> -<h3>À OUTRANCE.</h3> +<h3>À OUTRANCE.</h3> <p>No Amazon, I imagine, in the experience of Herodotus, Sir Walter @@ -1684,7 +1645,7 @@ older, cleverer, more experienced, and altogether of higher calibre than himself.</p> <p>He had come early, half hoping to find her alone, yet was it a relief to -be spared the ordeal of a <i>tête-à-tête</i> that seemed so delightful in +be spared the ordeal of a <i>tête-à -tête</i> that seemed so delightful in fancy. Of course, being her utter bond-slave, he paid his homage to Mrs. Lascelles with ludicrous stiffness, and blundered at once into an inconsequent conversation with Miss Ross. That syren took pity on his @@ -2384,7 +2345,7 @@ Artillery in!</p> <p>Let us take, for example, the room in which Frank Vanguard lies fast asleep, at ten in the morning, though a summer sun, streaming through -the open window, bathes him, like a male Danaë, in floods of gold. He +the open window, bathes him, like a male Danaë, in floods of gold. He possesses horses, carriages, costly jewellery, clothes in abundance, boots innumerable, yet his furniture consists of the following items:—</p> @@ -2495,7 +2456,7 @@ think I must have been <i>born</i> tired."</p> <p>Picard laughs—and when he laughs his expression changes for the worse. "I can sit up for ever," says he, "if there's anything to sit up for. A roll in the blankets and a tub are as good as a night's rest to me. Now, -you'll hardly believe I was playing <i>écarté</i> till six this morning, and +you'll hardly believe I was playing <i>écarté</i> till six this morning, and came down by the nine o'clock train!"</p> <p>Frank <i>didn't</i> believe it, though it was true enough, but helped himself @@ -2674,7 +2635,7 @@ similarity in many points flattering to both. Cornets listened open-mouthed, and felt the professional instinct rising strong in their martial young souls; older officers smiled approbation, not disdaining to gather hints from one who had seen <i>real</i> warfare, as to nosebags, -haversacks, picket-ropes, and such trifling minutiæ as affect the +haversacks, picket-ropes, and such trifling minutiæ as affect the efficiency of armies and turn the tide of campaigns. When the drag appeared nobody discovered that Frank Vanguard had made a masterly retreat; and Picard had received as many invitations to remain and be @@ -2709,9 +2670,9 @@ such a woman as Mrs. Lascelles, moving gracefully among the roses under a summer sky.</p> <p>So thought poor Goldthred, emerging from the French windows of the -breakfast-room for a <i>tête-à-tête</i> with his goddess, that might last +breakfast-room for a <i>tête-à -tête</i> with his goddess, that might last half an hour, that might be cut short (he knew her caprices) in less -than five minutes! A <i>tête-à-tête</i> from which he hoped to advance +than five minutes! A <i>tête-à -tête</i> from which he hoped to advance positively and tangibly in her favour, but which, like many others of the same kind, he feared might terminate in disappointment, discomfiture, despair.</p> @@ -2720,7 +2681,7 @@ discomfiture, despair.</p> paroxysms, alternating between rapture and dismay, such as completely destroyed anything like appetite or digestion. It was all very well for Uncle Joseph to go twice at the ham on the side-table, and devour such a -lump of <i>pâté de foie gras</i> as would have choked a coal-heaver. It was +lump of <i>pâté de foie gras</i> as would have choked a coal-heaver. It was all very well for Sir Henry, lounging down when everybody else had nearly done, avowedly with no appetite, after a cup of exceedingly hot coffee, to play as good a knife and fork as an Eton boy. It was all very @@ -3841,7 +3802,7 @@ or somebody, and couldn't bring his mind to regret it as he ought.</p> <p>We must return to Uncle Joseph, endeavouring to compose his mind by riding Punch at an uncomfortable jog-trot along a succession of shady lanes calculated to bring him back by a roundabout way to his own -dwelling-place. This <i>détour</i>, much against the pony's inclination—for +dwelling-place. This <i>détour</i>, much against the pony's inclination—for that sagacious animal protested at every homeward turn—he took advisedly and with deliberation, that he might have time to ponder on his position and his wrongs. Like most men who have passed middle age, @@ -3979,7 +3940,7 @@ the other's room, determined to find out everything that had taken place. As the two women sat together in that light, cheerful, prettily-furnished chamber, they afforded no unsightly study of effect, as resulting from contrast, of the respective proportion in which -feminine attractions are enhanced by dress and <i>déshabillé</i>. The fairer +feminine attractions are enhanced by dress and <i>déshabillé</i>. The fairer beauty wore a costume I am constrained to admire, but shrink from attempting to describe, inasmuch as it seemed to combine the different attractions by which victory is assured at balls, dinners, regattas, @@ -3994,7 +3955,7 @@ peach, is all very well, but does it seem quite fair play to dispose around these natural advantages certain delicate and filmy draperies, that set them off as a summer haze glorifies some Devonshire valley under the noon-day sun? "Scaldings!" quoth honest Jack-tar, creeping -along the deck with anything that may be spilt. "<i>Væ Victis!</i>" says +along the deck with anything that may be spilt. "<i>Væ Victis!</i>" says Brennus, turning up his moustache at the gates of Rome. "Look out for yourselves, gentlemen!" seems to be the interpretation of either warning, "and make the best terms you can!" For my part, I think it is @@ -4449,7 +4410,7 @@ recesses of the forest, its paths are only wide enough for two;</p> </div></div> <p>Reflect how pleasant it is to gather strawberries with a <i>Mademoiselle -Thérèse</i> in the wood of <i>Malieu</i>.</p> +Thérèse</i> in the wood of <i>Malieu</i>.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Quand on est deux,<br /></span> @@ -5211,7 +5172,7 @@ you'd got the mumps?"</p> <p>But dear Helen was possibly not desirous of assuming so disfiguring a malady, for the unwelcome passenger put his head into their compartment, -and, being a man of the world, sued in <i>formâ pauperis</i> for an +and, being a man of the world, sued in <i>formâ pauperis</i> for an accommodation to which he was entitled by the purchase of his first-class ticket. He did <i>not</i> say, "I have as good a right here as you, having paid my fare;" but, lifting his hat, stepped quietly in with @@ -7100,7 +7061,7 @@ some amusement and no little surprise.</p> <p>"Certainly, sir! Yes, sir! In the boodore, sir!" answered James. "I'd just taken in tea when you rang."</p> -<p>So Sir Henry found himself <i>tête-à-tête</i> with the lady for whom, during +<p>So Sir Henry found himself <i>tête-à -tête</i> with the lady for whom, during the foregoing winter, he had half-felt and half-professed a spurious kind of attachment, and was conscious of an uncomfortable wish that he, too, had made his escape with the others, or that it had never entered @@ -7638,7 +7599,7 @@ whist-player, who, with unexpectedly good cards, has yet made the most of them by science, skill, and studious attention to the game. Perhaps, also, she felt conscious of a certain fatigue and depression, such as generally succeeds brain-work accompanied by excitement. During her -<i>tête-à-tête</i> dinner with Mrs. Lascelles she was more silent than +<i>tête-à -tête</i> dinner with Mrs. Lascelles she was more silent than usual, whereas the other lady was more talkative. It did not escape the latter, however, that Jin's manner had acquired a softness and a wistful kindness towards herself she had never observed before. Uncle Joseph, @@ -8135,7 +8096,7 @@ meet now in the rain, on the lonely river, at a time when we ought most to forget and ignore each other's existence. Of all people in the world, I must be the last you would have wished to come across to-night."</p> -<p>"En effet," she muttered, "c'est un rencontre assez mal-à-propos."</p> +<p>"En effet," she muttered, "c'est un rencontre assez mal-à -propos."</p> <p>Her coolness seemed contagious. He proceeded with a <i>sang-froid</i> too complete to be perfectly natural:</p> @@ -8154,7 +8115,7 @@ conduct you safely to the Castle Hotel, there to wait till he is at leisure to join you, after which I am free to take whatever course I think due to my own character in this most awkward complication. I need not say that it never entered my head the Miss Ross I had heard of in -society, or the lady whose <i>enlèvement</i> I was to conduct for my friend, +society, or the lady whose <i>enlèvement</i> I was to conduct for my friend, could be—well—could be <i>you</i>! Madame, we have met in a manner that is creditable to neither of us—that is utterly ruinous to one. Can we not ignore this clumsy <i>contretemps</i>? Can we not agree to conceal it, and @@ -9051,7 +9012,7 @@ I shall have saved my boy. How could he but have been ruined under the care of that bad man? I shall have saved myself, for it is this poor patient angel who makes me good. And Frank, dear Frank! I shall have saved <i>you</i>!—you whom I loved better than myself! Ah! I have done well -by you, and you will never know it. <i>Qu'est que ça fait?</i> It is +by you, and you will never know it. <i>Qu'est que ça fait?</i> It is finished, and there's an end of it. If my darling dies, what signifies anything? I shall soon die too! They will surely let me keep him in the next world. I who have had so little of him in this!"</p> @@ -9531,7 +9492,7 @@ the ins-and-outs, the falls and fences, in short, all the fun of the hunt. Well, who knows! Perhaps my time may come, like another's.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">'Puis ce que ça doit se tirer au sort.'<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Puis ce que ça doit se tirer au sort.'<br /></span> </div></div> <p>But meanwhile I do very well as I am, and when I've found my master it @@ -9934,7 +9895,7 @@ his own gratification.</p> father and daughter when the crash first came.</p> <p>Sir Henry lived in cheerful apartments, dined at a tolerable -<i>table-d'hôte</i>, sipped a <i>petit vin de Bordeaux</i> that always agreed with +<i>table-d'hôte</i>, sipped a <i>petit vin de Bordeaux</i> that always agreed with him, smoked good cigars, and frequented a social circle, not very distinguished, nor indeed very respectable, but in which, with his fatal facility of getting into mischief, he found himself always amused.</p> @@ -10116,7 +10077,7 @@ sometimes I fancied it was somebody else. I think so still. What do <p>But Helen changed the subject, skilfully diverting her companion's thoughts to her approaching marriage, a topic of so engrossing a nature, that it lasted all the way to London, and was not half exhausted when -interrupted by the <i>fiancée's</i> characteristic exclamation, as their +interrupted by the <i>fiancée's</i> characteristic exclamation, as their train glided smoothly alongside the platform:</p> <p>"What a goose he is! I knew he'd come to meet us! How pleased he'll be @@ -10499,7 +10460,7 @@ malice. "You are so innocent! so inexperienced! Frank, I believe you <i>did</i> mean honestly by me. I believe you thought you liked me; and I certainly—well—I liked <i>you</i>. Horribly—shamefully! To win you, I was guilty of a fraud, a degradation, <i>une bassesse, entendez vous? une -lâcheté</i>. I took the letter of a girl who loved you, and I sent it off +lâcheté</i>. I took the letter of a girl who loved you, and I sent it off to another man—a good creature, <i>mais tant soit peu ganache</i>, who didn't know what to make of it. Never mind. I detached you from her, and caught you for myself. But I would not make you a slave to my husband; I @@ -10786,7 +10747,7 @@ frequenters are necessarily migratory. Those who get better go away, those who get worse die; but disease sends in a continuous supply of fresh afflictions, and the residence of a very few weeks causes a patient to be looked on as an old inhabitant and high authority in the -place. The head of the <i>table-d'hôte</i>, the easiest chair on the parade, +place. The head of the <i>table-d'hôte</i>, the easiest chair on the parade, the newest books from the library, the choicest game from the poulterer, the sweetest smile from landlady, the lowest bow from landlord, are the advantages to be attained by six weeks' tenure of an obstinate case; and @@ -11016,382 +10977,6 @@ unto you!"</p> <h3>THE END.</h3> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Contraband, by G. J. 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