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diff --git a/42989-h/42989-h.htm b/42989-h/42989-h.htm index 4345599..2f8ec0d 100644 --- a/42989-h/42989-h.htm +++ b/42989-h/42989-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 Plattner Story and Others, by H. G. Wells. @@ -80,45 +80,7 @@ p.cap:first-letter {float: left; clear: left; margin: 0 .2em 0 0; </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Plattner Story and Others, by H. G. Wells - -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 Plattner Story and Others - -Author: H. G. Wells - -Release Date: June 20, 2013 [EBook #42989] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERS *** - - - - -Produced by eagkw, Chris Curnow 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 42989 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img id="coverpage" src="images/i_cover.jpg" width="490" height="690" alt="Cover" /> @@ -618,7 +580,7 @@ this curious confirmatory circumstance, as he considered<span class="pagenum"><a it would unfavourably affect his prospects in a new situation. The displacement of his heart was discovered some months after, when he was -having a tooth extracted under anæsthetics. He +having a tooth extracted under anæsthetics. He then, very unwillingly, allowed a cursory surgical examination to be made of himself, with a view to a brief account in the <cite>Journal of Anatomy</cite>. That @@ -1622,7 +1584,7 @@ may be skimmed, keeping up the rush by means of the screw at the stern. Rooks and gulls fly enormous distances in that way with scarcely a perceptible movement of the wings. The bird really drives -along on an aërial switchback. It glides slanting +along on an aërial switchback. It glides slanting downward for a space, until it has gained considerable momentum, and then altering the inclination<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span> of its wings, glides up again almost to its original @@ -1802,7 +1764,7 @@ him.</p> <p>So swiftly had the thing happened that barely a quarter of the people going to and fro in Hyde Park, and Brompton Road, and the Exhibition Road saw -anything of the aërial catastrophe. A distant winged +anything of the aërial catastrophe. A distant winged shape had appeared above the clustering houses to the south, had fallen and risen, growing larger as it did so; had swooped swiftly down towards the Imperial @@ -2792,7 +2754,7 @@ over again.</p> <p>“It’s my opinion,” said the lieutenant, “that that glass will simply bend in and bulge and smash,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> -under a pressure of that sort. Daubrée has made +under a pressure of that sort. Daubrée has made rocks run like water under big pressures—and, you mark my words”—</p> @@ -3935,8 +3897,8 @@ For the fraction of a minute his mind was confused, and then he became aware that two or three people on the platform were regarding him with interest. Was he not the new Grammar School master making<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> -his début? It occurred to him that, so far as they -could tell, the fruit might very well be the naïve +his début? It occurred to him that, so far as they +could tell, the fruit might very well be the naïve refreshment of an orange. He flushed at the thought, and thrust the fruit into his side pocket, where it bulged undesirably. But there was no help for it, @@ -4196,7 +4158,7 @@ said in an off-hand tone.</p> <p>“Not a bit,” Haddon answered over his shoulder. “We shall chloroform you. Your heart’s as sound as a bell.” And as he spoke, I had a whiff of the -pungent sweetness of the anæsthetic.</p> +pungent sweetness of the anæsthetic.</p> <p>They stretched me out, with a convenient exposure<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span> of my side, and, almost before I realised what was @@ -4320,7 +4282,7 @@ body, an attenuated version of my material self? Should I find myself suddenly among the innumerable hosts of the dead, and know the world about me for the phantasmagoria it had always -seemed? Should I drift to some spiritualistic <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">séance</i>, +seemed? Should I drift to some spiritualistic <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">séance</i>, and there make foolish, incomprehensible attempts to affect a purblind medium? It was a state of unemotional curiosity, of colourless expectation. And @@ -4566,7 +4528,7 @@ and comprehend the whole world of matter. Ever more swiftly the stars closed in about the spot where Antares and Vega had vanished in a luminous haze, until that part of the sky had the semblance of a -whirling mass of nebulæ, and ever before me yawned +whirling mass of nebulæ, and ever before me yawned vaster gaps of vacant blackness, and the stars shone fewer and fewer. It seemed as if I moved towards a point between Orion’s belt and sword; and the void @@ -7031,7 +6993,7 @@ to address them, and before he could frame his words, they passed into the shadows. Horrocks pointed to the canal close before them now: a weird-looking place it seemed, in the blood-red reflections of the -furnaces. The hot water that cooled the tuyères +furnaces. The hot water that cooled the tuyères came into it, some fifty yards up—a tumultuous, almost boiling affluent, and the steam rose up from the water in silent white wisps and streaks, wrapping @@ -7063,7 +7025,7 @@ beat the juice out of the succulent iron, and black, half-naked Titans rushed the plastic bars, like hot<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span> sealing-wax, between the wheels. “Come on,” said Horrocks in Raut’s ear, and they went and peeped -through the little glass hole behind the tuyères, and +through the little glass hole behind the tuyères, and saw the tumbled fire writhing in the pit of the blast-furnace. It left one eye blinded for a while. Then, with green and blue patches dancing across the dark, @@ -8313,7 +8275,7 @@ indeed, all literary men have to be nowadays—naturally believed in the literary consequences of a mixture of races. She was dressed in white. She had finely moulded pale features, great depth of -expression, and a cloud of delicately <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">frisé</i> black hair +expression, and a cloud of delicately <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">frisé</i> black hair over her dark eyes, and she looked at Aubrey Vair with a look half curious and half shy, that contrasted admirably with the stereotyped frankness of your @@ -8500,7 +8462,7 @@ a sort of passion in that sombre-eyed, rather clever, and really very beautiful girl.</p> <p>He talked to her a lot about love and destiny, and -all that bric-à-brac of the minor poet. And they +all that bric-à -brac of the minor poet. And they talked together about his genius. He elaborately, though discreetly, sought her society, and presented and read to her the milder of his unpublished sonnets. @@ -8657,7 +8619,7 @@ him.</p> <p>“I want you to consider particularly how this will affect you. A man,” said Aubrey Vair, slowly, and staring hard at the leaves in his hand, “even gains -a certain éclat in these affairs. But to a woman it is +a certain éclat in these affairs. But to a woman it is ruin—social, moral.”</p> <p>“This is not love,” said the girl in white.</p> @@ -8807,8 +8769,8 @@ in his mind gradually, as though it had always been there. A lot of facts had converged and led him there. There was that line of cretonnes—four half-pieces—untouched, save for half a yard sold to cover -a stool. There were those shirtings at 4¾d.—Bandersnatch, -in the Broadway, was selling them at 2¾d.—under +a stool. There were those shirtings at 4¾d.—Bandersnatch, +in the Broadway, was selling them at 2¾d.—under cost, in fact. (Surely Bandersnatch might let a man live!) Those servants’ caps, a selling line, needed replenishing, and that brought back the @@ -9190,7 +9152,7 @@ a week, a timber yard, two villas, and the ruins—still marketable—of the avuncular residence. He tried to feel a sense of loss and could not. They were sure to have been left to Minnie’s aunt. All dead! -7×7×52÷20 began insensibly to work itself out in +7×7×52÷20 began insensibly to work itself out in his mind, but discipline was ever weak in his mental<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[250]</a></span> arithmetic; figures kept moving from one line to another, like children playing at Widdy, Widdy Way. @@ -9238,7 +9200,7 @@ exhilaratingly, with a little saucepan walloping above it, for Minnie was boiling two eggs,—one for herself this morning, as well as one for him,—and Minnie herself was audible, laying breakfast with the greatest -<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">éclat</i>. The blow was a sudden and terrible one—but +<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">éclat</i>. The blow was a sudden and terrible one—but it behoves us to face such things bravely in this sad, unaccountable world. It was quite midday before either of them mentioned the cottages.</p> @@ -9693,7 +9655,7 @@ was a treat?”</p> <p>“But I don’t know anything about it, you know.”</p> <p>“That’s just it. New view. No habits. No -<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">clichés</i> in stock. Ours is a live paper, not a bag +<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">clichés</i> in stock. Ours is a live paper, not a bag of tricks. None of your clockwork professional journalism in this office. And I can rely on your integrity”—</p> @@ -10347,7 +10309,7 @@ from any starting-point, they got to generalities, and while Hill attacked her upon the question of socialism,—some instinct told him to spare her a direct assault upon her religion,—she was gathering resolution to -undertake what she told herself was his æsthetic education. +undertake what she told herself was his æsthetic education. She was a year or two older than he, though the thought never occurred to him. The loan of <cite>News from Nowhere</cite> was the beginning of a series of @@ -10615,7 +10577,7 @@ omission.</p> <p>So the time came on for the second examination,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[291]</a></span> and Hill’s increasing pallor confirmed the general -rumour that he was working hard. In the aërated +rumour that he was working hard. In the aërated bread shop near South Kensington Station you would see him, breaking his bun and sipping his milk, with his eyes intent upon a paper of closely @@ -10641,7 +10603,7 @@ recognisably in his own proper person, the world a better place to live in. He took Bradlaugh and John Burns for his leaders and models, poor, even impecunious, great men. But Miss Haysman thought -that such lives were deficient on the æsthetic side, by +that such lives were deficient on the æsthetic side, by which, though she did not know it, she meant good wall-paper and upholstery, pretty books, tasteful clothes, concerts, and meals nicely cooked and @@ -10768,7 +10730,7 @@ felt a remarkable access of energy at first, and the note of a democracy marching to triumph returned to his debating society speeches; he worked at his comparative anatomy with tremendous zeal and -effect, and he went on with his æsthetic education. +effect, and he went on with his æsthetic education. But through it all, a vivid little picture was continually coming before his mind’s eye—of a sneakish person manipulating a slide.</p> @@ -11047,381 +11009,6 @@ perseverance” by Samuel Smiles, to be found on Project Gutenberg as Ebook number <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/selfh10h.htm">935</a>.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Plattner Story and Others, by H. G. 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