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diff --git a/41613-h/41613-h.htm b/41613-h/41613-h.htm index f42505f..05e22ea 100644 --- a/41613-h/41613-h.htm +++ b/41613-h/41613-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 The Strand Magazine, January, 1891, by George Newnes (editor). @@ -125,47 +125,7 @@ span.largetext { font-size: 150%; } </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strand Magazine, Vol. 1 - No. 1, -- January 1891, An Illustrated Monthly by Various - -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: The Strand Magazine, Vol. 1 - No. 1, -- January 1891, An Illustrated Monthly - -Author: Various - -Editor: George Newnes - -Release Date: December 12, 2012 [EBook #41613] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STRAND MAGAZINE *** - - - - -Produced by Dianna Adair, Demian Katz, Jonathan Ingram and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41613 ***</div> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> @@ -1008,10 +968,10 @@ which turned out very happily, Lady Burdett-Coutts is a grandchild. Mr. Coutts' second wife was Miss Harriet Mellon, a distinguished actress of her day, to whom he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> -left the whole of his fortune of £900,000. +left the whole of his fortune of £900,000. When the lady, who afterwards became Duchess of St. Albans, died in the year of -the Queen's accession, that £900,000 formed +the Queen's accession, that £900,000 formed the foundation of the great fortune of Miss Angela Burdett, better known to this generation as Lady Burdett-Coutts. Messrs. @@ -2903,7 +2863,7 @@ and how it works; the splendid services it accomplishes, for which few rewards are forthcoming. It is true that a man may attain to the post of superintendent, and to -a house, with a salary of £245 a year, but +a house, with a salary of £245 a year, but he has to serve a long probation. For consider that he has to learn his drill and the general working of the Brigade. Every @@ -2969,7 +2929,7 @@ satisfied.</p> <blockquote> -<p>[<span class="smcap">Alphonse Daudet</span>, the most brilliant of French novelists alive, was born at Nîmes in 1840. His +<p>[<span class="smcap">Alphonse Daudet</span>, the most brilliant of French novelists alive, was born at Nîmes in 1840. His parents were not rich, and he started life by drudging as an usher. Then he resolved to break his chains, and to earn his bread at Paris with his pen. He began by painting in the <i>Figaro</i>, with great graphic power, the miseries of ushers in provincial schools. Then he turned to writing stories, with the success to which he owes @@ -3077,7 +3037,7 @@ game of <i>galoche</i>—which the Breton mobiles had introduced during the siege. When little Stenne was not on the ramparts, or at the distribution of rations, you -would surely find him in the Place Château +would surely find him in the Place Château d'Eau. He did not play <i>galoche</i> himself, you must understand: too much money was needed for that. He contented himself @@ -3116,7 +3076,7 @@ At night he had visions of heaps of <i>galoches</i> at the foot of his bed, and five-franc pieces rolling and shining brightly. The temptation was too strong. On the -fourth day he returned to the Château +fourth day he returned to the Château d'Eau, saw the big boy again, and permitted himself to be led astray!</p> @@ -4042,7 +4002,7 @@ Alabaster, to whom the copyright belongs.</p> <p><br />here is an old wives' saying, that pretty children often -grow up plain, and <i>vice versâ</i>; +grow up plain, and <i>vice versâ</i>; but, as our readers may determine for themselves, Miss Ellen Terry has been always @@ -5904,7 +5864,7 @@ loaded me with insults. He was drunk and unworthy of notice; but I could not get rid of him otherwise than by giving him a blow on the chest. No sooner had I made my -way out of the crowd and entered a café, +way out of the crowd and entered a café, when I was followed by a relative of his, not drunk with wine, but mad with rage and indignation. He accused @@ -7120,8 +7080,8 @@ may possibly be needed for diseases of the respiratory or digestive organs, or of the skin. But the bill for food, hay and straw, amounted to the comfortable sum of -£1,510 0s. 8d. last year, against the modest -outlay of £166 11s. 5d. which was spent in +£1,510 0s. 8d. last year, against the modest +outlay of £166 11s. 5d. which was spent in drugs. The number of horse-patients confined to well-kept beds of straw and healthy peat-moss, in admirably ventilated apartments, @@ -7159,10 +7119,10 @@ into an unmistakable welcome. Here, in corners of the cosiest, and beds of the whitest wood-fibre, reclines many a magnificent specimen. These fine St. Bernard pups -are worth £250 a piece, and only a week or +are worth £250 a piece, and only a week or two ago a patient was discharged as convalescent, upon whose head rested the figure -of £1,200. Most of them are suffering from +of £1,200. Most of them are suffering from skin disease; but here is a pup, with a coat of impenetrable blackness, afflicted with St. Vitus's dance. He wears a pitiful expression; @@ -7455,13 +7415,13 @@ been parting from his only friend.</p> <h2><a name="The_Mirror" id="The_Mirror"><i>The Mirror.</i></a></h2> -<p class="center"><i>From the French of</i> <span class="smcap">Léo Lespès</span>.</p> +<p class="center"><i>From the French of</i> <span class="smcap">Léo Lespès</span>.</p> <blockquote> -<p>[<span class="smcap">Léo Lespès</span> was born at Bonchain, June the 18th, 1815—the day of Waterloo. At seventeen he was +<p>[<span class="smcap">Léo Lespès</span> was born at Bonchain, June the 18th, 1815—the day of Waterloo. At seventeen he was compelled to take up arms as a conscript of Fusiliers, and for eight years passed his life amidst the scenes of -camps and guard-rooms. But Lespès was not born to be a soldier; nature had meant him for a man of letters. +camps and guard-rooms. But Lespès was not born to be a soldier; nature had meant him for a man of letters. As soon as he obtained his liberty, he began to write for newspapers and magazines; and from that time until his death in 1875 he lived a busy but uneventful life, as one of the most popular of authors. He was one of the chief founders of the <i>Petit Journal</i>, which, owing largely to the tales and articles which he wrote under the @@ -7481,7 +7441,7 @@ been so great as it deserves.]</p></blockquote> </div> <p>ou wish me to write to you, -my dear Anaïs—me, a poor +my dear Anaïs—me, a poor blind creature whose hand moves faltering in the darkness? Are you not afraid of the sadness of my letters, @@ -7489,7 +7449,7 @@ written as they are in gloom? Have you no fear of the sombre thoughts which must beset the blind?</p> -<p>Dear Anaïs, <i>you</i> are happy; you can see. +<p>Dear Anaïs, <i>you</i> are happy; you can see. To see! Oh, to see! to be able to distinguish the blue sky, the sun, and all the different colours—what a joy! True, I @@ -7538,7 +7498,7 @@ luxury. Everywhere that my hand rests it touches silk and velvet, flowers and precious stuffs. Our table is abundant, and every day my taste is coaxed with dainties. -Therefore, you see, Anaïs, that my beloved +Therefore, you see, Anaïs, that my beloved folks are happily well off.</p> <p>Write to me, my darling, since you are @@ -7549,7 +7509,7 @@ girl.</p> <h3>LETTER II.</h3> -<p>You have no idea, Anaïs, what I am going +<p>You have no idea, Anaïs, what I am going to tell you! Oh! you will laugh as if you had gone crazy. You will believe that with my sight I must have lost my reason. I @@ -7621,8 +7581,8 @@ colour of the lily?"</p> words ceased sounding in my ears. So then, I had, according to him, a beautiful figure, a fairy foot, a snowy skin, a complexion like -a rose, and fair and silky hair. Oh, Anaïs, -dear Anaïs, to other girls such a lover, who +a rose, and fair and silky hair. Oh, Anaïs, +dear Anaïs, to other girls such a lover, who describes all your perfections, is nothing but a suitor; but to a blind girl he is more than a lover, he is a mirror.</p> @@ -7657,7 +7617,7 @@ Mr. Mirror mine!</p> <h3>LETTER III.</h3> -<p>Oh, dear Anaïs, what news I have to tell +<p>Oh, dear Anaïs, what news I have to tell you! What sad and unexpected things befall us in this life! As I tell you what has happened to me, the tears are falling @@ -7698,7 +7658,7 @@ I heard the voices of two neighbours—two workmen—who were chatting together, thinking they were alone. You -know, Anaïs, +know, Anaïs, when God deprives us of one of our faculties, @@ -7746,7 +7706,7 @@ her, and that alongside of that very table her father and mother seldom have anything except dry bread."</p> -<p>Oh, Anaïs, you can understand my +<p>Oh, Anaïs, you can understand my agony! They have practised on me for my happiness; they have made me live in luxury amidst my darkness—and me alone. @@ -7855,7 +7815,7 @@ from yours. Your love will be an oasis in the desert of my night."</p> <p>Am I doing right, or wrong? I know -not, dear Anaïs, but I am going to my +not, dear Anaïs, but I am going to my parents' rescue. Perhaps, in my groping, I have found the right way.</p> @@ -7892,13 +7852,13 @@ does his ugliness matter to me? I no longer know what is beautiful, or what is ugly, but I <i>do</i> know what is kind and loving.</p> -<p>Farewell, then, dear Anaïs, rejoice in my +<p>Farewell, then, dear Anaïs, rejoice in my happiness.</p> <h3>LETTER VI.</h3> -<p>I am a mother, Anaïs, the mother of a +<p>I am a mother, Anaïs, the mother of a little girl, and I can't see her! They say she looks sweet enough to eat. They make out that she is a living miniature of me, @@ -8003,7 +7963,7 @@ the course of nature, he were to die before me, I should have less time to love him.</p> -<p>In fact, Anaïs, if you remember the +<p>In fact, Anaïs, if you remember the stories in the fairy book which we read together, you with eyes and voice, I in heart and spirit, you will admit that I @@ -8061,7 +8021,7 @@ night.</p> <p>Yesterday my mother came to dress me. We were long over my toilette. I had on a beautiful silk dress, a lace collar, my hair -dressed <i>à la</i> Marie Stuart. When my +dressed <i>à la</i> Marie Stuart. When my arrangements were complete, my mother said to me:—</p> @@ -8262,8 +8222,8 @@ which he was condemned to exile in Bessarabia. There for some years he continued fiery, and romantic poems which have caused him to be termed the Byron of the North. Besides his poems Pushkin also wrote a striking volume of prose stories, from which "The Queen of Spades" is taken. When Nicholas was crowned he was recalled to Court, and in 1831 he married. For five years he lived in happiness; -but the husband of his wife's sister, who was named George Danthès, preferred the wife of Pushkin to his own. -Pushkin, who was as jealous as Othello, challenged Danthès to a duel. On the 29th of January, 1837, the +but the husband of his wife's sister, who was named George Danthès, preferred the wife of Pushkin to his own. +Pushkin, who was as jealous as Othello, challenged Danthès to a duel. On the 29th of January, 1837, the brothers-in-law met with pistols at six paces, and Pushkin was shot through the body. Two days afterwards he breathed his last. He was buried, at his own desire, at a monastery near his early home, where his grave is still denoted by a cross of marble, bearing simply the initials A. S. P.]</p></blockquote> @@ -8821,7 +8781,7 @@ society her position was sad. Everyone knew her; no one paid her any attention. At a ball she sometimes danced, but only when -a <i>vis-à-vis</i> was wanted. Women would +a <i>vis-à -vis</i> was wanted. Women would come up to her, take her by the arm, and lead her out of the room if their dress required attending to. 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