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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 www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: A Rainy June and Other Stories - -Author: Ouida - -Release Date: June 14, 2013 [EBook #42944] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A RAINY JUNE AND OTHER STORIES *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42944 ***</div> <hr /> @@ -599,7 +561,7 @@ positive objection we could raise to San Zenone. We could not refuse his proposals merely<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</a></span> because he is too good-looking, isn't an Englishman, and has a mother who is reputed -<i>maîtresse femme</i>! Gladys writes from Coombe +<i>maîtresse femme</i>! Gladys writes from Coombe as from the seventh heaven. They have been married three days! But I fear she will have trouble before her. I fear he is weak and unstable, @@ -939,7 +901,7 @@ now why the English painters give such staring colours; unless the colours scream, you don't see them in this aqueous, dim atmosphere. That is why a benign Providence -has made the landscape a <i>purée aux +has made the landscape a <i>purée aux epinards</i>.</p> <p>'I think the air here, inside and out, @@ -1253,12 +1215,12 @@ ruins by the little lake? When Aunt Carrie offered it to us for this June I was so delighted, but now I am half afraid the choice of it was a mistake, and that he does not know what to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">42</a></span> -do with himself. He is <i>dépaysé</i>. I cried a +do with himself. He is <i>dépaysé</i>. I cried a little yesterday; it was too silly, but I couldn't help it. He laughed at me, but he got a little angry. "<i>Enfin que veux tu?</i>" he said impatiently; -"<i>je suis à toi, bien à toi, beaucoup -trop à toi!</i>" He seemed to me to regret being +"<i>je suis à toi, bien à toi, beaucoup +trop à toi!</i>" He seemed to me to regret being mine. I told him so; he was more angry. It was, I suppose, what you would call a scene. In five minutes he was penitent, and caressed @@ -1419,7 +1381,7 @@ I don't think he likes it even then, it is all too moist, too windy, too dim for him. When I put a rose in his button-hole this morning, it shook the drops over him, and he said, "<i>Mais -quel pays!—même une fleur c'est une douche d'eau +quel pays!—même une fleur c'est une douche d'eau froide!</i>" Last month, if I had put a dandelion in his coat, he would have sworn it had the odour of the magnolia and the beauty of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">49</a></span> @@ -1430,7 +1392,7 @@ only cared to lie at my feet, really, literally. We were all in all to each other, just like Cupid and Psyche. And now—he will play billiards with Toniello to pass the time, and -he is longing for his <i>petits théâtres</i>! Is it my +he is longing for his <i>petits théâtres</i>! Is it my fault? I torment myself with a thousand self-accusations. Is it possible I can have been tiresome, dull, over-exacting? Is it possible @@ -1484,7 +1446,7 @@ It is only what the beloved scientists again call automatic action. And do try and beat into your little head the fact that a man may love you very dearly, and yet yearn a little for the -<i>petits théâtres</i> in the silent recesses of his manly +<i>petits théâtres</i> in the silent recesses of his manly breast. Of course, I know this sort of rough awakening from delightful dreams is harder for you than it is for most, because you began at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">52</a></span> @@ -1696,7 +1658,7 @@ consent to come away with me somewhere out of this intolerable place, which is made up of fog and green leaves. Let us go to Paris to begin with; there is not a soul there, and the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">60</a></span> -theatres are <i>en rélache</i>, but it is always +theatres are <i>en rélache</i>, but it is always delightful, and then in a week or so we will go down to Trouville, all the world is there." I couldn't answer him for crying. Perhaps @@ -1745,7 +1707,7 @@ dead, it is not to be awakened by all the ever and aye. Myself, I fail to see how you could expect a young Italian, who has all the habits of the great world, and the memories of -his <i>vie de garçon</i>, to be cheerful or contented in +his <i>vie de garçon</i>, to be cheerful or contented in a wet June in an isolated English country house, with nobody to look at but yourself. Believe me, my dear child, it is the inordinate @@ -1941,7 +1903,7 @@ declaring that nothing can be more delightful than the perch which she sits on herself. Come to us here. There are any quantities of birds here who ought to be in their cages, but are not, -and manage to enjoy themselves <i>quand même</i>. If +and manage to enjoy themselves <i>quand même</i>. If only you had married Nicoletta! She might have torn your hair occasionally, but she would never have bored you. There is only one @@ -2008,7 +1970,7 @@ says it is a <i>seccatura</i>. Everything is a <i>seccatura</i>. He only likes places where he can meet all the world. "Paris will be a solitude, too, never fear," he said, very petulantly; "but there -will be all the <i>petits théâtres</i> and the open-air<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">74</a></span> +will be all the <i>petits théâtres</i> and the open-air<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">74</a></span> concerts, and we can dine in the Bois and down the river, and we can run to Trouville. It will be better than rain, rain, rain, and nothing to @@ -2099,7 +2061,7 @@ beautiful, you ought to be sufficiently happy in gazing at it from the back of a <i>baignoir</i>. I grant that it is not the highest amatory ideal—to rush about the boulevards in a daument, -and eat delicious little dinners in the cafés, +and eat delicious little dinners in the cafés, and laugh at naughty little plays afterwards; but <i>l'amour peut se nicher</i> anywhere. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">78</a></span> Love won't be any the worse for having his @@ -2661,7 +2623,7 @@ face full of warmth, and colour, and fire, and tenderness, great flashing eyes which could at times be as soft as a dog's, and a beautiful ruddy mouth with teeth as white as a dog's -are also. She was by name Generosa Fè; she +are also. She was by name Generosa Fè; she was the wife of Tasso Tassilo, the miller.</p> <p>In Marca, most of the women by toil and sun @@ -3064,7 +3026,7 @@ Church; but he had never noticed him. Now<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117 he looked at him curiously as he answered, without any preface <span class="locked">whatever,—</span></p> -<p>'I am come to speak to you of Generosa Fè, +<p>'I am come to speak to you of Generosa Fè, the wife of Tasso Tassilo.'</p> <p>The young steward coloured violently. He @@ -4236,7 +4198,7 @@ Francis.'</p> itself, was, in her own secret thoughts, not a little troubled at the change she saw in her master. She put it down to the score of his -agitation at the peril of Generosa Fè; but +agitation at the peril of Generosa Fè; but this in itself seemed to her unfitting in one of his sacred calling. A mere light-o'-love and saucebox, as she had always herself called the @@ -4406,7 +4368,7 @@ ideas of his creed were hazy and curious. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page Church represented to him a thing with virtue in it, like a charm or a bunch of herbs; it was only necessary, he thought, to observe certain -formulæ of it to be safe within it; conduct +formulæ of it to be safe within it; conduct outside it was of no consequence. Nothing on earth can equal in confusion and indistinctness the views of the Italian rustic as regards his @@ -5311,7 +5273,7 @@ of hay, of garlic, of smoking pipes hastily thrust into trouser pockets, of unwashed flesh steaming hotly in the crowd, and the close air. The judge was there with his officers, a -mediæval figure in black square cap and black +mediæval figure in black square cap and black gown. The accused was behind the cage assigned to such prisoners, guarded by carabineers and by the jailers. Don Gesualdo looked in @@ -5368,7 +5330,7 @@ cause as he ignorantly strove to do good. From other witnesses of Marca, the Court had learned that a great friendship had always been seen to exist between the vicar of San -Bartolo and Generosa Fè, and that on the +Bartolo and Generosa Fè, and that on the morning when the murder was discovered, the priest had removed the body of the dead man to the sacristy, forestalling the officers of @@ -5632,7 +5594,7 @@ to the sea.</p> <p>At three of the clock on the following day the judgment was given in the court.</p> -<p>Generosa Fè was decreed guilty of the +<p>Generosa Fè was decreed guilty of the murder of her husband, and sentenced to twenty years of solitary confinement. 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