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diff --git a/43616-h/43616-h.htm b/43616-h/43616-h.htm index c967984..728424c 100644 --- a/43616-h/43616-h.htm +++ b/43616-h/43616-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 Quaint Companions, by Leonard Merrick. @@ -72,43 +72,9 @@ hr.r65 {width: 65%; margin-top: 3em; margin-bottom: 3em;} </style> </head> <body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43616 ***</div> -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Quaint Companions, by Leonard Merrick - -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 Quaint Companions - With an Introduction by H. G. Wells - -Author: Leonard Merrick - -Release Date: September 1, 2013 [EBook #43616] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE QUAINT COMPANIONS *** - - - - -Produced by Marc D'Hooghe at http://www.freeliterature.org -(Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) - - - - - - -</pre> @@ -1520,7 +1486,7 @@ met a Londoner of his acquaintance, a singer; and Lee the elated had presented him to her gaily. The singer, who was a handsome man, and not a gentleman, was too bent on being gallant to remember to be polite as he ogled her, and curled his moustache, and propped his elbows on the -café table. His shoulder excluded Lee more and more; the conversation +café table. His shoulder excluded Lee more and more; the conversation became frankly a duologue. The art of rebuffing a man without gaucherie is not known to every woman; it is, in fact, the peculiar attribute of the well-bred. Still Ownie was to blame; she regarded such impertinence @@ -1559,7 +1525,7 @@ take care—you don't know me yet. By God——"</p> <p>She signalled nervously to a cabman, and gave him the name of the hotel. In the cab Lee's reproaches were so furious that she drew up the windows to muffle his voice from the passers-by. The distance -between the café and the hotel was short, and in less than five minutes +between the café and the hotel was short, and in less than five minutes the courtyard was reached. She sprang out, and hurried to the bedroom while he paid the fare. When he tried the door he found that she had locked it. He called to her, but she made no answer. Then he beat at the @@ -2197,12 +2163,12 @@ across the piano like a mourner across a grave; but that was after a late night when his nerves were out of order. David prescribed a couple of glasses of port and a cigar for him, and he was soon cheerful enough to suggest a dinner up West. The tenor and his ugly son were familiar -figures in the Regent Street restaurants, "Café, and Café-au-lait" +figures in the Regent Street restaurants, "Café, and Café-au-lait" somebody had nick-named them.</p> -<p>At the age of sixteen "Café-au-lait" was a man in his knowledge of one +<p>At the age of sixteen "Café-au-lait" was a man in his knowledge of one side of life—a man in his reflections and self-restraint—though he -still trembled under the masters' glances, and boggled over his Cæsar. +still trembled under the masters' glances, and boggled over his Cæsar. He boggled, indeed, over everything except the very occasional essays that demanded no dry-as-dust facts; when he was at liberty to draw on his imagination the essays were a pleasure to him. Lee's was not the @@ -2696,7 +2662,7 @@ when light was shed, it was evident that if she sold her diamonds, she could withdraw from The Woodlands with a considerable sum, and the earliest idea was to remove to a villa at Balham or Wandsworth. On the advice of one of the decrepit foreigners, however, who promised her a -clientèle, she talked presently of taking a boarding-house at Regent's +clientèle, she talked presently of taking a boarding-house at Regent's Park as soon as she was able to sub-let. The fall was crushing, but at least it was better than solitude in a suburb and living on her capital. Privately, too, as she foresaw herself ministering to the palates of @@ -2831,7 +2797,7 @@ sat huddled by the window, the tears dripping down his face.</p> <p>Thus began the second book of David's life, where so many books of life have begun, and where so many are fated to end—in a garret of a lodging-house. Now, too, began his acquaintance with larger London, -no longer the capital of concerts and cafés to him, but the London of +no longer the capital of concerts and cafés to him, but the London of grim, inhospitable streets, of dull-faced, tramping crowds, the London that the millions know, sordid and unsmiling—cheerful only for a consideration, a niggard even of its light. There were many evenings @@ -3152,7 +3118,7 @@ they aren't broiling hot——<i>I</i> know! Get him a Perrin's pork-pie <p>Bee brightened. Its pride in its pork-pies is a cult in Beckenhampton—they obsess the local mind—but there are pies and pies, and Perrin's are the pinnacle. If the King were to consent to sup in -a Beckenhampton ménage, the breathless question, "What shall we give +a Beckenhampton ménage, the breathless question, "What shall we give him?" would be disposed of when someone exclaimed, "Give him a Perrin's pork-pie."</p> @@ -4970,7 +4936,7 @@ from the same mint. If they had been the strangers to each other that she believed, he would never have divined the gold beneath the small change. For that matter he too had been commonplace; the soul wasn't a jack-in-the-box to jump to order. "Oh, Mr. Thackeray, don't!" breathed -Charlotte Brontë disillusioned, when he helped himself again to +Charlotte Brontë disillusioned, when he helped himself again to potatoes; and probably he had said nothing to justify her homage by the time the cheese came. He, David Lee, had <i>talked</i> potatoes. More than likely the girl whom he had found trivial had found him trite.</p> @@ -5004,7 +4970,7 @@ stranger! There was a throb of triumph in his delusion.</p> <p>The day was Sunday, and when he joined her, he found the sisters together. He regretted that the elder had remained at home, although he -knew that he had had nothing to hope from a tête-à-tête.</p> +knew that he had had nothing to hope from a tête-à -tête.</p> <p>"You don't paint to-day, Miss Sorrenford?"</p> @@ -5360,7 +5326,7 @@ pleasant evenings."</p> Harris?"</p> <p>"In the front," he said. "I hope we shall give you some pleasanter -evenings still under the new régime, Miss Sorrenford. We mean to make +evenings still under the new régime, Miss Sorrenford. We mean to make the house one of the most go-ahead theatres in the provinces." His tone was bright, inspiriting. He struck her as likely to succeed in anything that he undertook.</p> @@ -7001,373 +6967,7 @@ a crook of the body cannot ban.</p> -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Quaint Companions, by Leonard Merrick - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE QUAINT COMPANIONS *** - -***** This file should be named 43616-h.htm or 43616-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/6/1/43616/ - -Produced by Marc D'Hooghe at http://www.freeliterature.org -(Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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