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diff --git a/41793-h/41793-h.htm b/41793-h/41793-h.htm index a788f96..843b0d1 100644 --- a/41793-h/41793-h.htm +++ b/41793-h/41793-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, by Various. No. 98 (February, 1899). @@ -147,44 +147,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strand Magazine, Volume XVII, February -1899, No. 98., 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, Volume XVII, February 1899, No. 98. - -Author: Various - -Release Date: January 6, 2013 [EBook #41793] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STRAND MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1899 *** - - - - -Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Anna Hall and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41793 ***</div> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a><br /><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span></p> <h2>Table of Contents</h2> @@ -239,7 +202,7 @@ IX.—THE STORY OF THE JEW'S BREAST-PLATE.</h2> <p><img class="dropcap" src="images/cap1.jpg" alt="M" />y particular friend Ward Mortimer was one of the best men of his day at everything connected -with Oriental archæology. +with Oriental archæology. He had written largely upon the subject, he had lived two years in a tomb at Thebes, @@ -247,7 +210,7 @@ while he had excavated in the Valley of the Kings, and finally he had created a considerable sensation by his exhumation of the alleged mummy of Cleopatra in the inner -room of the Temple of Horus, at Philæ. +room of the Temple of Horus, at Philæ. With such a record at the age of thirty-one, it was felt that a considerable career lay before him, and no one was surprised when @@ -380,7 +343,7 @@ is a practical authority upon precious stones, and he would tell you how pure these are."</p> <p>Captain Wilson, a man with a dark, hard, -incisive face, was standing beside his <i>fiancée</i> +incisive face, was standing beside his <i>fiancée</i> at the other side of the case.</p> <p>"Yes," said he, curtly, "I have never @@ -1786,11 +1749,11 @@ remain there with its companion one for fourteen centuries.</p> <p>Twenty-three years before Christ, Augustus -Cæsar ordered the removal of them from +Cæsar ordered the removal of them from Heliopolis to Alexandria, and so the Needle came to be taken on its second journey. In Alexandria was a gorgeous palace of the -Cæsars, and before the palace the columns +Cæsars, and before the palace the columns were set up. They are called Cleopatra's Needles, but in reality Cleopatra had no connection with their history. She may @@ -1803,7 +1766,7 @@ Queen gave the pillars her name.</p> <p>For fifteen centuries they were left to stand in this last-named position, which was close to the Port of Alexandria; and many -years after the grand building of the Cæsars +years after the grand building of the Cæsars had fallen in ruins, these two columns still stood. With years the sea had advanced to the base of the one in which we are more @@ -1830,7 +1793,7 @@ take to England the fallen obelisk as a trophy of their success. So anxious were they to have this idea carried out, that they willingly gave up some of their payment, and -collected £7,000 towards the expense of its +collected £7,000 towards the expense of its removal.</p> <div class="figcenter"> @@ -2011,7 +1974,7 @@ explaining all to him, the Professor generously offered to pay the -sum of £10,000, +sum of £10,000, which was deemed sufficient for the purpose.</p> @@ -2069,7 +2032,7 @@ the subject together, with the result that Mr. Dixon undertook the responsibility of the conveyance of the column to England, Professor Wilson arranging to pay the -£10,000 on its erection in London. A +£10,000 on its erection in London. A construction was therefore carefully designed in England for encasing the Needle, so that it would be a sea craft of itself, and @@ -3025,7 +2988,7 @@ engaged in crawling along the ground, looking as mild as milk, and as gentle as any sucking dove: you would hardly suppose he could show fight or raise his hand—I mean his -antennæ—to injure anyone. But in No. 3 +antennæ—to injure anyone. But in No. 3 he is represented in his favourite act of attacking a caterpillar: for he is really a very voracious and courageous carnivore. @@ -3341,7 +3304,7 @@ fixed hereditary instinct of lurking under leaves, or in dark spots, and never showing themselves -openly. The larvæ of +openly. The larvæ of the butterfly group as a whole thus fall into two great classes (as far as @@ -3753,7 +3716,7 @@ painful.</p> all these false pretences, however, is one which Hermann -Müller, I +Müller, I believe, was the first to point out in this same Lobster Moth @@ -4307,7 +4270,7 @@ They wear swallow-tail coats, truncated cone caps, with the base of the cone uppermost. They are armed with short, serviceable -cutlasses and bâtons, +cutlasses and bâtons, such as undertakers' men carry, suggesting that they have @@ -5947,7 +5910,7 @@ common crystal from a lake of brine to the working-man's table would be beyond the limits of our magazine. It would involve a discussion of chemical symbols -and formulæ which would make the printed +and formulæ which would make the printed page a cryptograph. Better is it, briefly, to say that much of the salt found in the domestic salt-cellar comes from the water of @@ -6496,7 +6459,7 @@ those violent political struggles which were the forerunners of internal conspiracies; and 1851 saw this practical anarchy suddenly put a stop to by the -famous, or infamous, <i>coup d'état</i> of +famous, or infamous, <i>coup d'état</i> of December 2nd.</p> <p>Towards the end of that month a @@ -6723,7 +6686,7 @@ that gold is really in this country—gold ore worth -£15,000 was +£15,000 was dug up in 1894 out of this country: 1894 @@ -7334,7 +7297,7 @@ Certain letters get habitually mixed up in typewriting; <i>c</i> and <i>v</i> stand next one another on the keyboard of the machine, and the person who typed this draft sometimes strikes -a <i>c</i> instead of a <i>v</i>, or <i>vice versâ</i>. I never do +a <i>c</i> instead of a <i>v</i>, or <i>vice versâ</i>. I never do that. The letters I tend to confuse are <i>s</i> and <i>w</i>, or else <i>e</i> and <i>r</i>, which also come very near one another in the arbitrary arrangement. @@ -8354,7 +8317,7 @@ and reserved it for us," put in Gaillet. "I also ordered -the <i>déjeuner</i>. I +the <i>déjeuner</i>. I hope you will like it: sole <i>au gratin</i> and <i>chateaubriand @@ -8382,7 +8345,7 @@ cookery since he came to France."</p> <p>"It is M. -Gueusquin <i>aîné</i> +Gueusquin <i>aîné</i> who claims the credit for applying the tree idea to modern dining. Doubtless he does it better than @@ -8545,7 +8508,7 @@ Robinson Crusoe by centuries. Yet it still showers its plenteous fruit upon the ground, and as we kicked about its bushels of bursting burrs we -wondered how "marron glacé" could be so +wondered how "marron glacé" could be so expensive in Paris. The next photograph shows how the walks were sprinkled with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span> ripe nuts; and also some pretty samples of @@ -8707,7 +8670,7 @@ a brewer's daughter, or even a company-promoter's. And so we feared that Aunt Sarah might look upon a union between us not only as a flat defiance of her wishes, but as a -deplorable <i>mésalliance</i> on both sides. So, +deplorable <i>mésalliance</i> on both sides. So, for the time the engagement lasted (not very long, alas!), we feared to reveal it. Now there is no engagement to reveal. But this @@ -8765,13 +8728,13 @@ hopelessly out-of-date rings and brooches and chains hung for sale. It was the way of the shopkeeper to ticket these gloomy odds and ends with cheerful inscriptions, such as -"Antique, 17s. 6d.," "Real Gold, £1 5s.," -"Quaint, £2 2s. 6d." But even he could +"Antique, 17s. 6d.," "Real Gold, £1 5s.," +"Quaint, £2 2s. 6d." But even he could find no more promising adjective for the hideous brooch than "massive"—which was -quite true. He wanted £3 for the thing +quite true. He wanted £3 for the thing when I first saw it, and it slowly declined, -by half-a-crown at a time, to £1 15s., and +by half-a-crown at a time, to £1 15s., and then it vanished altogether. I wondered at the time what misguided person could have bought it; but I learnt afterward that the @@ -10228,7 +10191,7 @@ similarly ornamented, and bore aloft an old family sword of state, presumably to give -<i>éclat</i> to the occasion. +<i>éclat</i> to the occasion. Arrived at its destination, the pudding was cut up in the celebrated @@ -11204,8 +11167,8 @@ feminine of adjectives is formed by adding eleven times nine are Rouen, former capital of Normandy, and heir presumptive to the throne by his descent from the son of -Edward III., eleven times twelve are le père, -the father, la mère, the mother—Oh, I'm +Edward III., eleven times twelve are le père, +the father, la mère, the mother—Oh, I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, and this, Paris on the Seine...."</p> @@ -11999,381 +11962,6 @@ for the snap-shot to Mrs. R. A. 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