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diff --git a/41791-0.txt b/41791-0.txt index 95cc962..bdf316c 100644 --- a/41791-0.txt +++ b/41791-0.txt @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ those long polysyllabic passages on one note which make psalm-singing in our churches so fruitful a source of precipitancy and schism. "We shall not sheathe the sword" (pause for breath), "which we hàve -not/lightly/drawn,//until Belgium has recovered all and MORE than/all +not/lightly/drawn,//until Belgium has recovered all* and MÒRE than/all that/she has/sacrificed. "Until France is adequàte/ly sec/urèd//against the/menace/of @@ -1502,7 +1502,7 @@ moon, and the relieved boat rocked suddenly with a wild, delighted levity. Emily was gone. Peering back upstream, the two men saw a slowly expanding circle on the -black water And there were a few bubbles. Emily was indeed gone. +black water. And there were a few bubbles. Emily was indeed gone. Stephen sat in a limp posture of absolute exhaustion, his shoulders hunched, his head on his hands, speechless. @@ -3023,7 +3023,7 @@ The Chase because they were unable to depart from that high standard. The papers reported the affair with curious brevity and curiously failed to get at the heart of it. The headlines were all about "Mr. Stephen -Byrne "--"Poet's Housemaid"--"Tragedy in an Author's House"--and so on. +Byrne"--"Poet's Housemaid"--"Tragedy in an Author's House"--and so on. It was only at the end of the small paragraphs that you found out there were black suspicions about a Civil Servant, one John Egerton, first-class clerk in the Ministry of Drains. And for The Chase these diff --git a/41791-h/41791-h.htm b/41791-h/41791-h.htm index 305eaa1..3e841d3 100644 --- a/41791-h/41791-h.htm +++ b/41791-h/41791-h.htm @@ -1,15 +1,9 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<!-- $Id: header.txt 236 2009-12-07 18:57:00Z vlsimpson $ --> - -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> - <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 House By The River, by A. P. Herbert. - </title> - <style type="text/css"> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <title>The House By The River | Project Gutenberg</title> + <style> body { margin-left: 10%; @@ -175,14 +169,14 @@ table { <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41791 ***</div> <div class="figleft"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""> </div> <div class="figright"> -<img src="images/tp.jpg" alt=""/> +<img src="images/tp.jpg" alt=""> </div> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > @@ -191,19 +185,19 @@ table { <h2>By A. P. Herbert</h2> -<p class="center">New York<br /> +<p class="center">New York<br > Alfred A Knopf</p> <p class="center">1921</p> -<p class="center">COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY<br /> +<p class="center">COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY<br > ALFRED A. KNOPF, <span class="smcap">Inc.</span></p> <p class="center">PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>I</h2> @@ -632,7 +626,7 @@ those long polysyllabic passages on one note which make psalm-singing in our churches so fruitful a source of precipitancy and schism.</p> <p>"We shall not sheathe the sword" (pause for breath), "which we hàve -not/lightly/drawn,//until Belgium has recovered all and MORE than/all +not/lightly/drawn,//until Belgium has recovered all* and MÒRE than/all that/she has/sacrificed.</p> <p>"Until France is adequàte/ly sec/urèd//against the/menace/of @@ -760,7 +754,7 @@ pretty—in a way.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>II</h2> @@ -1018,7 +1012,7 @@ peering through the frosted glass of the front door.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>III</h2> @@ -1688,7 +1682,7 @@ moon, and the relieved boat rocked suddenly with a wild, delighted levity. Emily was gone.</p> <p>Peering back upstream, the two men saw a slowly expanding circle on the -black water And there were a few bubbles. Emily was indeed gone.</p> +black water. And there were a few bubbles. Emily was indeed gone.</p> <p>Stephen sat in a limp posture of absolute exhaustion, his shoulders hunched, his head on his hands, speechless.</p> @@ -1733,7 +1727,7 @@ stupidly.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>IV</h2> @@ -1942,7 +1936,7 @@ tomorrow ... can't be bothered now. Stephen see to it ... Stephen and Cook. Cook's voice, raucous. Cook's night out ... late ... go to bed, Cook ... go to bed ... go to bed, everybody ... all's well.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>Stephen turned out the light and crept away to the little room behind, thanking God for the fortunate sleepiness of his wife. The dreaded @@ -2103,8 +2097,8 @@ uncomfortable sense of bargaining. It was difficult to pray without driving a bargain, somehow ... like some of those wretched hymns:</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"And when I see Thee as Thou art<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I'll praise Thee as I ought,"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"And when I see Thee as Thou art<br ></span> +<span class="i2">I'll praise Thee as I ought,"<br ></span> </div></div> <p>for instance, a close, inescapable contract. The old tune sang in his @@ -2134,7 +2128,7 @@ the tide rolled down.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>V</h2> @@ -2641,7 +2635,7 @@ It's—it's <i>come up</i>."</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>VI</h2> @@ -2878,7 +2872,7 @@ Stephen's voice, "John, it's—it's a boy!"</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>VII</h2> @@ -3165,7 +3159,7 @@ the river.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>VIII</h2> @@ -3211,7 +3205,7 @@ The Chase because they were unable to depart from that high standard.</p> <p>The papers reported the affair with curious brevity and curiously failed to get at the heart of it. The headlines were all about "Mr. Stephen -Byrne "—"Poet's Housemaid"—"Tragedy in an Author's House"—and so on. +Byrne"—"Poet's Housemaid"—"Tragedy in an Author's House"—and so on. It was only at the end of the small paragraphs that you found out there were black suspicions about a Civil Servant, one John Egerton, first-class clerk in the Ministry of Drains. And for The Chase these @@ -3405,7 +3399,7 @@ it again. Then he went away.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>IX</h2> @@ -3512,7 +3506,7 @@ she would lie and listen and make huge plans for the future—infinite, impossible, contradictory plans. And the centre of all of them was Stephen.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>And Stephen would go down into the warm study and sit down in the sunny window and write. Ever since that Sunday morning when the detective came @@ -3761,7 +3755,7 @@ alone in the cool bedroom, thinking of Stephen.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>X</h2> @@ -3906,7 +3900,7 @@ it brought no inspiration.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>XI</h2> @@ -4296,7 +4290,7 @@ live permanently with a conversation like this? But old John could!</p> delightfully, and once again there was the sense of a secret passing between them.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>Then they went to look for John, and Muriel determined that she would be very nice to him. The next dance was, nominally, a waltz, and that was a @@ -4449,7 +4443,7 @@ Underground.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>XII</h2> @@ -4820,7 +4814,7 @@ get out of the boat.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>XIII</h2> @@ -4982,7 +4976,7 @@ hundred lines.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>XIV</h2> @@ -5117,7 +5111,7 @@ laugh at him.</p> <p>And Margery said nothing, but wondered to herself what it might mean.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>John came home in the middle of September, and called the same evening at the Tarrants' house. But he was told after a long wait that they were @@ -5460,7 +5454,7 @@ dreamed if she had written it herself.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>XV</h2> @@ -5716,7 +5710,7 @@ knew that it was true.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>XVI</h2> @@ -6035,7 +6029,7 @@ heard.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>XVII</h2> @@ -6248,7 +6242,7 @@ and Margery was waiting in the garden, looking out into the wind. He told her simply that he could not find Stephen; and this time he lied easily.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>That night she did not show him the paper which she had found in the dining-room. But in the morning she gave it to him, and John tore it @@ -6258,7 +6252,7 @@ artist. But he was a good man.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>XVIII</h2> @@ -6441,10 +6435,10 @@ was part of the scene, part of the river, and part of the Island, as it was meant to be. And on the pedestal there was written, simply:</p> -<p class="center">IN MEMORY<br /> -OF<br /> -STEPHEN BYRNE<br /> -A GREAT POET<br /> +<p class="center">IN MEMORY<br > +OF<br > +STEPHEN BYRNE<br > +A GREAT POET<br > HE LOVED THIS PLACE</p> <p>The unveiling was a quaint, unusual ceremony. The time chosen was a diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt index 6312041..b5dba15 100644 --- a/LICENSE.txt +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +This book, including all associated images, markup, improvements, metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. @@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. 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