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diff --git a/41440-h/41440-h.htm b/41440-h/41440-h.htm index fe45dfb..70121cd 100644 --- a/41440-h/41440-h.htm +++ b/41440-h/41440-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 Poppea Of The Post-Office, by Mabel Osgood Wright. @@ -172,46 +172,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's Poppea of the Post-Office, by Mabel Osgood Wright - -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: Poppea of the Post-Office - -Author: Mabel Osgood Wright - -Illustrator: The Kinneys - -Release Date: November 22, 2012 [EBook #41440] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POPPEA OF THE POST-OFFICE *** - - - - -Produced by D Alexander, HathiTrust, Mary Meehan and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41440 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -238,12 +199,12 @@ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY<br /> <i>All rights reserved</i></p> <p class="center">THE MACMILLAN COMPANY<br /> -NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO<br /> -ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO</p> +NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO<br /> +ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO</p> <p class="center">MACMILLAN & CO., <span class="smcap">Limited</span></p> -<p class="center">LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA<br /> +<p class="center">LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA<br /> MELBOURNE</p> <p class="center">THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, <span class="smcap">Ltd.</span> @@ -1084,7 +1045,7 @@ date,—"Poppea—1850."</p> way and that in the hope of finding more.</p> <p>"It's a woman's name if I remember rightly, and I think I've met it in -Mr. Plutarch's book or some history. The wife of one of the Cæsars or +Mr. Plutarch's book or some history. The wife of one of the Cæsars or some one of importance. I'll look it up to-morrow. Anyway, the picture is done on ivory like the one of Miss Felton's mother that she wears in a brooch. Some said it was only made of tea-cup china, so one day, when @@ -1893,7 +1854,7 @@ same," said the farrier's wife.</p> flashed through his brain, yet the next moment he was stooping courteously to disentangle Miss Emmy's parasol from the fringe of her silk mantilla. Then they proceeded along the street, Miss Emmy's full -skirt of gray chiné silk, with its bordered flounces of pink roses, +skirt of gray chiné silk, with its bordered flounces of pink roses, rustling as it swung about her, buoyed out by many petticoats, for this dainty lady followed the fashion without the use of what she considered the unnecessary vulgarity of a harsh and unmanageable hoop-skirt.</p> @@ -1946,7 +1907,7 @@ suddenly she picked up the child and, carrying her across the room, stood her upon the table so that their faces were upon a level, all oblivious of the fact that her mantilla had slipped from her shoulders and that the lace sunshade she had dropped had been seized by the pup, -who bore it to his usual câche under the stove.</p> +who bore it to his usual câche under the stove.</p> <p>"The darling! how could any one have the heart to desert such an exquisite little creature? Positively, Mr. Gilbert, you must let us @@ -2368,7 +2329,7 @@ firm chin from the perfect symmetry that seems to lack sympathy. Iron-gray hair belied his age, which was barely forty years. In New England towns at this time people looked askance at men of this type. Patriotism rushed to any form of dissent in which to cloak itself rather -than lean toward anything that might be preëstablished and, therefore, +than lean toward anything that might be preëstablished and, therefore, un-American,—the middle classes knowing no distinction between catholicity and Romanism.</p> @@ -2690,7 +2651,7 @@ length of her tether.</p> architectural design and necessity, came the spirit of that other garden that the roseleaf wife had created, tended, and left to outlive her. From the bank presently there sprang a bunch of tulips here, a crimson -peony there, a musk rose-bush in the débris put forth new branches +peony there, a musk rose-bush in the débris put forth new branches reaching toward the light, then came the matted green of violets, tufts of velvet sweet william, a wand of madonna lilies. All through this season and others some deep-sleeping seed or bulb put forth, @@ -2914,7 +2875,7 @@ now she means to make it last.</p> <p>I pray she does. What would become of us?</p> -<p><i>Nov. 12.</i>—<i>The Union is safe for Lincoln is reëlected!</i></p> +<p><i>Nov. 12.</i>—<i>The Union is safe for Lincoln is reëlected!</i></p> <hr style="width: 45%;" /> @@ -4171,7 +4132,7 @@ had been jolted to such an extent that he had been obliged, in order to keep his seat, to adapt himself to circumstances and do something more than sit on the box and hold the reins, a new condition which raised his ire. It may be said with truth that the tyrannical family coachman of -the old régime in New York was the logical and fitting ancestor of the +the old régime in New York was the logical and fitting ancestor of the arbitrary chauffeur of to-day. The first, however, having only the "lame horse" plea as his weapon; the other, any one of an endless series of complicated intestinal diseases concealed in the corpulent tonneau.</p> @@ -4573,7 +4534,7 @@ languages were the boy's associates, for Philip must needs go to college and become, if not a lawyer, a man of affairs and politics like his father.</p> -<p>Now Philip loved learning, but on its æsthetic rather than positive +<p>Now Philip loved learning, but on its æsthetic rather than positive side; beauty of form, color, sound, all appealed to him intensely, and the thought of the beauty shone from his great gray eyes and beautified every feature of his exquisitely modelled face, as though in this Nature @@ -5489,7 +5450,7 @@ nowhere to be found.</p> Miss Emmy, taking his arm and switching him in the direction where he cared least to go.</p> -<p>"I've sent Nora home with her in the coupé, for she looked really +<p>"I've sent Nora home with her in the coupé, for she looked really overdone. Don't be so disappointed; you can go and inquire for her to-morrow."</p> @@ -5739,7 +5700,7 @@ accident, the third time by intent; does not that make us friends?"</p> <p>As far as his emotions were concerned, Bradish Winslow at six and thirty might be said to have his second wind. The things that appealed to him with any permanence in these days knocked first at the door of his -judgment where his æsthetic taste was doorkeeper. It was by this route +judgment where his æsthetic taste was doorkeeper. It was by this route that Poppea stole swiftly along until his heart was reached, and responded before he even remembered that he had one. Then, too, she was as refreshing as the first sun-ripened strawberries of June after the @@ -5917,7 +5878,7 @@ this silent understanding that three was company that night; besides, a half-mile walk alone on a street where each house kept watch over its neighbor, was a mere nothing to a village girl.</p> -<p>"Where is Poppea?" was Hugh's question on reëntering, his hands full of +<p>"Where is Poppea?" was Hugh's question on reëntering, his hands full of the trinkets of travel that he had pulled hastily from his grip. "Gone home? alone in the dark? why, Mother!" and dropping his burden in her lap, he went out the low French window and sprang over the piazza rail @@ -6349,7 +6310,7 @@ clay you are working."</p> and did not scoff, and that some one was the master, who knew. But he saw the real Poppea only once to speak to her, at Stephen Latimer's, before the time when the Felton ladies bore her with them to New York -for her musical début, in that season of social introduction that is +for her musical début, in that season of social introduction that is crowded between Thanksgiving and Christmastide. She was cordial and the very same when looked at from a distance, but when Philip stood before her, he was conscious of a subtle change, a certain veiling and holding @@ -6369,7 +6330,7 @@ a stringed quartet was playing Mendelssohn's <i>Songs without Words</i> from behind a screen of palms. In the circle that surrounded her, to which she was in course of being presented by Miss Emmy, the evening gowns of women were equally mingled with the black coats of the men, while the -figure nearest to her, holding her bouquet of Maréchal Neil roses and +figure nearest to her, holding her bouquet of Maréchal Neil roses and ferns, was that of Bradish Winslow.</p> <p>As Philip gazed hesitant about entering alone and yet wishing to, he @@ -6475,7 +6436,7 @@ slipped in and closed the shutters fast. She had intended taking the early train for home, as three days would elapse before she was to sing at an afternoon concert given for the benefit of a fashionable charity.</p> -<p>When Nora finally judged that it was proper for the household protégée, +<p>When Nora finally judged that it was proper for the household protégée, in whom she took no small pride, to awake, and brought her coffee and rolls to her room, after the Feltons' winter custom, Poppea found herself undergoing a sort of nervous reaction caused by the excitement @@ -7160,7 +7121,7 @@ had evidently fallen in crossing the room. Miss Felton had found him and had sent for two or three doctors, who were now with him; she was terribly upset, and so the woman babbled on until the house was reached.</p> -<p>Three coupés were lined up before the door, and the house was lighted +<p>Three coupés were lined up before the door, and the house was lighted from top to bottom. Poppea judged that the physicians were still in consultation.</p> @@ -7392,7 +7353,7 @@ second floor, lighted some gas-jets in the three rooms, rang for his man, and gave directions that he was to be wakened at half-past nine, breakfast in his room, and would under no consideration see any one before eleven o'clock. Then as the valet, but half awake, stumbled out, -steadying himself by the portières as he drew them to, Winslow gave a +steadying himself by the portières as he drew them to, Winslow gave a sigh of relief, and flinging himself into a chair before the hearth, as Poppea had done, he stirred the embers and kindled a fire that was not for warmth but like summoning a sympathetic yet reticent friend.</p> @@ -7713,7 +7674,7 @@ morning air so necessary to those whose life has been of the open.</p> <p>Choosing the latter, he had gone but a dozen rods when he met the station-master, who had come across lots with the direct intention of -hunting him out. It seemed that the mass of smouldering débris cast from +hunting him out. It seemed that the mass of smouldering débris cast from the attic into the brook had bunched together and formed an impromptu dam, to the extent that the little stream, unusually lusty from the spring rains, had been diverted from its course to the switch track, @@ -7899,12 +7860,12 @@ and because his young daughter Helen was studying singing.</p> <p>"Dudleigh was a widower of good birth but of frail health and uncertain means. That Angus was at once struck by the girl's delicate beauty—she was then only eighteen—some of these letters prove, and after hearing -her sing at a fête of flowers given by the conservatory, in which she +her sing at a fête of flowers given by the conservatory, in which she took the part of a poppy, he proposed to her, or rather to her father for her. The artist, knowing that he had only a short life before him and no one with whom to leave his child, urged on the match, and as a wedding gift to his son-in-law, painted a miniature of Helen as she had -appeared at the fête with the poppies in her hair, having the fanciful +appeared at the fête with the poppies in her hair, having the fanciful name of Poppea engraved in the locket with the date.</p> <p>"This is, of course, the miniature that hung about Poppea's neck when @@ -9168,7 +9129,7 @@ had come into her life too late.</p> <p>John Angus, sitting alone on his piazza, had at first listened in irritation to the voice below in the garden, then the very quality of its tone brought back the past as a surging tide that he could not -check. Once more he was at the open-air fête of a foreign city and the +check. Once more he was at the open-air fête of a foreign city and the singing of a lovely girl, little more than a child, had crept into his heart, as her exquisite form and coloring had pleased his critical eye, and he had let himself go. Then to keep the time schedule he had @@ -10062,380 +10023,6 @@ than Mr. Churchill has ever achieved before.... 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