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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 <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p class="pg">Title: A Man's Man</p> -<p class="pg">Author: Ian Hay</p> -<p class="pg">Release Date: December 7, 2012 [eBook #41574]</p> -<p class="pg">Language: English</p> -<p class="pg">Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p class="pg">***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MAN'S MAN***</p> <p> </p> -<h4>E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries<br /> - (<a href="http://archive.org/details/toronto">http://archive.org/details/toronto</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -354,7 +338,7 @@ and by Jove, I'd sooner steer eight men than one woman, any day!—<i>Pu <p class="center"><i>FORTITER IN RE</i></p> <blockquote> -<p>VI. <span class="smcap">Knight-Errantry <i>à la Mode</i></span> <span class="ralign"><a href="#chVI">81</a></span></p> +<p>VI. <span class="smcap">Knight-Errantry <i>à la Mode</i></span> <span class="ralign"><a href="#chVI">81</a></span></p> <p>VII. <span class="smcap">The Alternative Route</span> <span class="ralign"><a href="#chVII">112</a></span></p> @@ -617,7 +601,7 @@ college club of twelve members, admission to which was strictly limited to gentlemen who could absorb a gallon of beer at a draught, and whose first rule stated that any member who committed -the <i>bêtise</i> of taking a degree, however humble, +the <i>bêtise</i> of taking a degree, however humble, should pay to the club a fine of five pounds.</p> <p class="indent">"Still," said Towzer hopefully, "there's always @@ -1121,7 +1105,7 @@ last year's model," and at the present moment Hughie was driving to meet some one else. He continued:—</p> -<p class="indent">"<i>Cutlets à la reform</i>. Quite the best thing the +<p class="indent">"<i>Cutlets à la reform</i>. Quite the best thing the kitchens turn out, but not so showy as they might be. Still, with old Huish's Crown Derby plates—it was decent of the old man to lend @@ -1129,7 +1113,7 @@ them; I hope to goodness Mrs. Gunn won't do anything rash with them—they ought to do. <i>Grassy corner pudding</i>. That always creates excitement, though it tastes rotten. <i>Fruit salad</i>; -<i>crême brûlé</i>. That's safe enough. <i>Macaroni au +<i>crême brûlé</i>. That's safe enough. <i>Macaroni au gratin</i>. She won't touch it, but it'll please Uncle Jimmy and Jack Ames. Wish I could have some myself! Never mind; only about six hours more!"</p> @@ -3098,7 +3082,7 @@ Holy Orders was dancing the Cachuca.</p> <h2><a name="chVI" id="chVI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2> -<p class="h3">KNIGHT-ERRANTRY <i>À LA MODE</i></p> +<p class="h3">KNIGHT-ERRANTRY <i>À LA MODE</i></p> <p class="indent"><span class="smcap">If</span> all good Americans go to Paris when they die, it may safely be predicted that all the bad @@ -3206,7 +3190,7 @@ was to pay a flying visit to Atlantic City.</p> at Coney Island. He had watched the islanders bathing, had witnessed a display of highly—not to say epileptically—Animated Pictures, had -spent half-an-hour in an open <i>café-chantant</i>, where +spent half-an-hour in an open <i>café-chantant</i>, where a bevy of tired-looking girls in short skirts pranced about with mechanical abandon at the back of the small stage, shouting the chorus of a ditty which @@ -3278,7 +3262,7 @@ the Villain, though what the Villain should be doing unrecognised at such a period of the play—it was about the third act—was hard to understand. However, the mystery was now cleared -up by a French <i>vivandière</i>—by this time it was +up by a French <i>vivandière</i>—by this time it was plain that the scene was laid in the Crimea—who called upon the mysterious one, in the accents of Stratford-atte-Bowe, for a song and dance. @@ -3634,7 +3618,7 @@ His eye had brightened, and now twinkled facetiously as he surveyed first Hughie and then the girl at the piano.</p> -<p class="indent">"<i>Une petite pièce de tout droit</i>—eh, what?" he +<p class="indent">"<i>Une petite pièce de tout droit</i>—eh, what?" he remarked.</p> <p class="indent">Hughie, beginning to understand why his companion @@ -3737,7 +3721,7 @@ the other side of the table, mused not altogether without envy upon the strange inequality of that law of nature which decrees that what is a toothful for one man shall be a skinful for another and -an anæsthetic for a third.</p> +an anæsthetic for a third.</p> <p class="indent">He was recalled from these musings by the remembrance of the girl at the piano, and turned @@ -3959,7 +3943,7 @@ time,—his old masculine self-consciousness was returning,—and hurried off to what the Coney Islanders call a "deepo." Here they ensconced themselves in the corner of a fairly empty car, -and started on their twenty-mile run, <i>viâ</i> Sheepshead +and started on their twenty-mile run, <i>viâ</i> Sheepshead Bay and other delectable spots, to Brooklyn Bridge.</p> @@ -4045,7 +4029,7 @@ Noddy Kinahan is about. If it hadn't been for you—by the way, would you mind telling me your name? You know mine."</p> -<p class="indent">Hughie told her. Presently they left the trolley-car—<i>anglicè</i>, +<p class="indent">Hughie told her. Presently they left the trolley-car—<i>anglicè</i>, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page109" id="page109"></a>[pg 109]</span> electric-tram—and struck off down a street in Brooklyn. The girl turned in at @@ -4371,7 +4355,7 @@ Allerton off the bollard.</p> he shouted. "Where did you see anybody?"</p> <p class="indent">Mr. Allerton rose slowly and painfully from the -scuppers. There are moments when the <i>rôle</i> of +scuppers. There are moments when the <i>rôle</i> of a Democritus is difficult to sustain.</p> <p class="indent">"I'm sorry you did that, captain," he remarked, @@ -5379,7 +5363,7 @@ business methods; and Mr. Noddy Kinahan was nothing if not thorough.</p> <p class="indent">Now every steamer which plies under Lloyds' -ægis is fitted, below the water-line, with a set of +ægis is fitted, below the water-line, with a set of what are called bilge-valves. Through these it is possible to expel any water which may have <span class="pagenum"><a name="page148" id="page148"></a>[pg 148]</span> @@ -5823,7 +5807,7 @@ dock for three months; and by shipping in the Orinoco he was barely doing more than work his passage home. His ten-year-old dream of delivering Mrs. Walsh from her wash-tub for all -time, and exalting her from the <i>res angustæ</i> of +time, and exalting her from the <i>res angustæ</i> of Teak Street, Limehouse, to a social environment reserved exclusively for the wives of chief engineers, seemed as far from fulfilment as ever. @@ -6148,7 +6132,7 @@ than bottles of imitation French claret. Every <span class="pagenum"><a name="page171" id="page171"></a>[pg 171]</span> scar on her sides was an honourable wound; every groan and creak that rose from her starting -timbers a pæan; every cough and wheeze that +timbers a pæan; every cough and wheeze that proceeded from her leaky cylinders a prayer of joyful thanks. The Orinoco had graduated high in the nameless but glorious band of those who @@ -6544,7 +6528,7 @@ to marry each other when the time came.</p> suppose we were the happiest couple under the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page185" id="page185"></a>[pg 185]</span> broad heaven. Then she let down her skirt and -put up her hair and made her <i>début</i>. (I should say +put up her hair and made her <i>début</i>. (I should say that she lived alone with her old father, a retired East Indian of the time of John Company.) To her own surprise and my great pride—at first—she @@ -7039,7 +7023,7 @@ and discomfited firm of Dicky and Cherub, who stood grinning sheepishly in the background, Hughie's ward slipped under her guardian's arm and disappeared into the bathroom, -with a swish of cærulean drapery and a +with a swish of cærulean drapery and a triumphant banging of the door.</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page200" id="page200"></a>[pg 200]</span> @@ -7083,7 +7067,7 @@ over again, but don't! She has been utterly spoiled by everybody, and you must give her time to find her level again. Left to herself, she would be as good as gold. I don't say she wouldn't do -something rather <i>outré</i> now and then from sheer +something rather <i>outré</i> now and then from sheer animal spirits, but that doesn't count. She's young, of course, so she can't—she can't be expected to—you know what I mean?"</p> @@ -7426,7 +7410,7 @@ some mysterious manner got rid of his shoe and sock under the table; and was proceeding to enumerate the respective marketing experiences of a family of little pigs, when his mother, deciding -that it was high time this <i>séance</i> came to +that it was high time this <i>séance</i> came to an end, called upon him to say grace on behalf of the company.</p> @@ -7623,7 +7607,7 @@ doubtfully.</p> <p class="indent">"Green will do, old man," remarked the <i>mannequin</i> unexpectedly.</p> -<p class="indent">"Cherub, keep quiet!" said the <i>coutumière</i>. +<p class="indent">"Cherub, keep quiet!" said the <i>coutumière</i>. "You have absolutely nothing whatever to recommend you but your clothes, so don't spoil it by babbling. There, Hughie! That is the sort of @@ -7773,7 +7757,7 @@ a more seasonable hour.</p> <p class="indent">Hughie had sat on with D'Arcy and Leroy in the billiard-room long after the other men—Joey's -<i>clientèle</i>—had emptied their glasses and +<i>clientèle</i>—had emptied their glasses and gone to bed. There had been a "ladies' night," accompanied by fearsome games (of a character detrimental to the table) between sides captained @@ -7840,7 +7824,7 @@ older than he is. Occasionally she mistakes this motherly feeling for something else, and marries him—but not often. Obviously Mildred Leroy now regarded Hughie as nothing more than an -eligible young <i>débutant</i>, the chaperon's natural +eligible young <i>débutant</i>, the chaperon's natural prey, to be rounded up and paired off with all possible despatch.</p> @@ -7920,7 +7904,7 @@ very finely drawn indeed. There was some truth, it is to be feared, in the accusation, for Joan was undoubtedly exhibiting symptoms at this time of a species of mental indigestion—what the French -call <i>tête montée</i> and the Americans "swelled +call <i>tête montée</i> and the Americans "swelled head"—induced by an undiluted diet of worship and homage. Appetite for this sort of thing grows with eating, and Joan, like her mother before @@ -7933,7 +7917,7 @@ the time being of a good deal of the solid sustenance of real friendship.</p> <p class="indent">She was a curious mixture of worldly wisdom -and naïveté, and was frankly interested in herself. +and naïveté, and was frankly interested in herself. She was undisguisedly anxious to know <span class="pagenum"><a name="page225" id="page225"></a>[pg 225]</span> what people thought of her, and made no attempt @@ -7969,7 +7953,7 @@ of impulse, and her vagaries were more frequently <span class="pagenum"><a name="page226" id="page226"></a>[pg 226]</span> due to the influence of the moment than any desire to pose. She would disappoint a young -man of a long-promised <i>tête-à-tête</i> on the river, to +man of a long-promised <i>tête-à -tête</i> on the river, to go and play at shop in a plantation with the under-keeper's children. She would shed tears over harrowing but unconvincing narratives of @@ -8047,7 +8031,7 @@ at intervals, and Joan and Mrs. Leroy, when they went up to town in the season, paid occasional state calls upon Mrs. Lance at her residence in Maida Vale, where they drank tea in company -with the <i>alumnæ</i> of the variety stage and the jug-and-bottle +with the <i>alumnæ</i> of the variety stage and the jug-and-bottle department.</p> <p class="indent">Lance himself was understood to be making a @@ -8094,7 +8078,7 @@ think has happened?"</p> <p class="indent">"Worse! Not a man—not a subaltern—not a drummerboy can get away from Ipsleigh to-night!" (Ipsleigh was a neighbouring military -<i>depôt</i>, and a fountain-head of eligibility in a +<i>depôt</i>, and a fountain-head of eligibility in a barren land.) "They have all been called out to some absurd inspection, or route-march, or manœuvres, or something, at twenty-four hours' @@ -8207,7 +8191,7 @@ as blue as the forget-me-nots in her hair, and her lips, to quote King Solomon upon a very different type of female, were like a thread of scarlet. She wore a simple white frock, and carried in her hand -the bouquet of the <i>débutante</i>.</p> +the bouquet of the <i>débutante</i>.</p> <p class="indent">Joan swung past her in the embrace of the ever-faithful Binks.</p> @@ -8258,7 +8242,7 @@ that Miss Gaymer, who, serenely confident that her guardian would come and eat humble pie at the last moment, had kept number eight free, now found herself occupying the rather unusual -<i>rôle</i> of wallflower. What was more, she knew she +<i>rôle</i> of wallflower. What was more, she knew she would be unable to pick up a partner, for every available man was being worked to the last ounce, and pretty girls still sat here and there about the @@ -8768,8 +8752,8 @@ like a trifle on account. You won't refuse poor Joey, will you?"</p> <p class="indent">She squeezed her guardian's arm in a manner -which a Frenchman would have described as <i>très -câline</i>.</p> +which a Frenchman would have described as <i>très +câline</i>.</p> <p class="indent">"I think I had better put you on an allowance," said Hughie.</p> @@ -8966,7 +8950,7 @@ these matters with a maiden of twenty.</p> <p class="indent">"So I shan't marry for years, if at all," continued Miss Gaymer, with the air of one propounding an entirely new theory. "Not until -I'm getting <i>passée</i> at any rate, and only then if +I'm getting <i>passée</i> at any rate, and only then if I could find a man whom it wouldn't give me the creeps to think of spending the rest of my life with. Besides, the moment one gets engaged all @@ -9391,7 +9375,7 @@ in politics, had taken up rowing again, and was trying to interest himself generally in the course of life to which he had looked forward so eagerly on his travels. He had even tried conclusions -with a few <i>débutantes</i> who had been introduced to +with a few <i>débutantes</i> who had been introduced to his notice by business-like Mammas. But whatever his course of life, his thoughts and desires persisted in centring round a single object,—a @@ -9419,7 +9403,7 @@ present,—a mechanical perfunctory business, with no reward or alleviation in sight,—but he was determined to go on doing his duty by Joan to the best of his ability, and combine so far as he -was able the incompatible <i>rôles</i> of stern guardian, +was able the incompatible <i>rôles</i> of stern guardian, undesired suitor, and—to him most paradoxical of all—familiar friend.</p> @@ -9432,7 +9416,7 @@ without flinching. The fact that he was a failure as a lover seemed to be no reason why he should fail as a guardian.</p> -<p class="indent">Not that Joan submitted readily to his <i>régime</i>. +<p class="indent">Not that Joan submitted readily to his <i>régime</i>. To Hughie's essentially masculine mind her <span class="pagenum"><a name="page268" id="page268"></a>[pg 268]</span> changes of attitude were a complete mystery. @@ -9811,7 +9795,7 @@ give him?"</p> <p class="indent">"Nothing out of the way," said Hughie uneasily. "You'll stay to lunch, won't you? I am expecting the Leroys and D'Arcy. We can all go -on to a <i>matinée</i> afterwards."</p> +on to a <i>matinée</i> afterwards."</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page278" id="page278"></a>[pg 278]</span> Miss Harbord assumed the expression of one @@ -10131,7 +10115,7 @@ obviously not well off. People are asking why. There are two explanations given. One, the more popular, is that you have embezzled or speculated the money all away. The other, which prevails -among the <i>élite</i>—"</p> +among the <i>élite</i>—"</p> <p class="indent">"The people who are really in the know, you know," explained Leroy.</p> @@ -10465,7 +10449,7 @@ We are going to have the tableaux in the first half," Joan rattled on, as they walked through the plantations. "Well-known pictures, you know. Some of them are perfectly lovely. I am -in three," she added, rather naïvely.</p> +in three," she added, rather naïvely.</p> <p class="indent">Hughie asked for details.</p> @@ -10526,7 +10510,7 @@ alone was quite sufficient to predispose her in that misjudged hero's favour.</p> <p class="indent">In her heart of hearts Miss Gaymer was just a -little <i>éprise</i> with Mr. Haliburton, and, as becomes +little <i>éprise</i> with Mr. Haliburton, and, as becomes one who is above such things, just a little ashamed of the fact. She had found something rather compelling in his dark eyes and silky @@ -10846,7 +10830,7 @@ several important particulars; and with these the intending playgoer should at once make himself conversant.</p> -<p class="indent">Here is a <i>précis</i>:—</p> +<p class="indent">Here is a <i>précis</i>:—</p> <p class="indent">(1) Remember that the performance has been got up entirely for the benefit of the performers, @@ -10958,8 +10942,8 @@ to be comforted. The first <i>tableau vivant</i> partook of the nature of an "extra turn," and was not foreshadowed in the programme. It took place in the middle of the stage, and depicted two overheated -gentlemen (one carrying a <i>bâton</i> and the other -<i>en déshabille</i>) explaining (<i>fortissimo</i>) the purport +gentlemen (one carrying a <i>bâton</i> and the other +<i>en déshabille</i>) explaining (<i>fortissimo</i>) the purport of a type-written document to a third (who caressed his right ear all the time) by the light of a single wax vesta.</p> @@ -11157,7 +11141,7 @@ close behind. Binks continued, quite undisturbed,—</p> them a lead, Sousa!"</p> <p class="indent">Mr. Sousa (second from the end, o. p. side) -obediently began to agitate his <i>bâton</i>, partially +obediently began to agitate his <i>bâton</i>, partially scalping Sunny Jim in the process, and the waxworks sang out, <i>fortissimo</i>, with a distinct but unevenly distributed <i>accelerando</i> toward the @@ -13565,360 +13549,6 @@ disarmingly." to the end of "you see".</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> -<hr class="full" /> -<p class="pg">***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MAN'S MAN***</p> -<p class="pg">******* This file should be named 41574-h.txt or 41574-h.zip *******</p> -<p class="pg">This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/1/5/7/41574">http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/5/7/41574</a></p> -<p class="pg"> -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed.</p> - -<p class="pg"> -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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