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| author | pgww <pgww@lists.pglaf.org> | 2026-06-22 02:26:00 -0700 |
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| committer | pgww <pgww@lists.pglaf.org> | 2026-06-22 02:26:00 -0700 |
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@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ other darn old town in this crazy state. So you either take me to Palm Beach or else shut up and go away." "Very well. This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this -man.--a man who is notorious for his excesses--a man your father +man--a man who is notorious for his excesses--a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name--you have rejected the demi-monde rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up. From now on---" @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ ladder. II -Five o'clock robed down from the sun and plumped soundlessly into +Five o'clock rolled down from the sun and plumped soundlessly into the sea. The golden collar widened into a glittering island; and a faint breeze that had been playing with the edges of the awning and swaying one of the dangling blue slippers became @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ suddenly freighted with song. It was a chorus of men in close harmony and in perfect rhythm to an accompanying sound of oars dealing the blue writers. Ardita lifted her head and listened. - "Carrots and Peas, + "Carrots and peas, Beans on their knees, Pigs in the seas, Lucky fellows! @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ a large rowboat was approaching containing seven men, six of them rowing and one standing up in the stern keeping time to their song with an orchestra leader's baton. - "Oysters and Rocks, + "Oysters and rocks, Sawdust and socks, Who could make clocks Out of cellos?---" @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ said. "No," said his scornful mouth slowly; "No, I won't get off the yacht. You can get off if you wish." -Going to the rail be gave a curt command and immediately the crew +Going to the rail he gave a curt command and immediately the crew of the rowboat scrambled up the ladder and ranged themselves in line before him, a coal-black and burly darky at one end and a miniature mulatto of four feet nine at to other. They seemed to @@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ together crisply. "Right DRISS! Front! Step out here, Babe!" The smallest Negro took a quick step forward and saluted. +"Yas-suh!" + "Take command, go down below, catch the crew and tie 'em up--all except the engineer. Bring him up to me. Oh, and pile those bags by the rail there." @@ -406,7 +408,7 @@ decision whether it's go or stay." He picked up the book and opened it curiously. "The Revolt of the Angels. Sounds pretty good. French, eh?" He -stared at her with new interest "You French?" +stared at her with new interest. "You French?" "No." @@ -428,7 +430,7 @@ her hand was trembling a little; then she crossed over with her supple, swinging walk, and sitting down in the other settee blew a mouthful of smoke at the awning. -"You can't get me off this yacht," she raid steadily; "and you +"You can't get me off this yacht," she said steadily; "and you haven't got very much sense if you think you'll get far with it. My uncle'll have wirelesses zigzagging all over this ocean by half past six." @@ -690,7 +692,7 @@ seemed as if minute by minute the brightness and the great silence were increasing until he could almost hear the midnight toilet of the mermaids as they combed their silver dripping curls under the moon and gossiped to each other of the fine wrecks -they lived on the green opalescent avenues below. +they lived in on the green opalescent avenues below. "You see," said Carlyle softly, "this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst @@ -820,10 +822,8 @@ gold, a gilded bay smooth as glass and set round with tiny palms, the whole resembling the mirror lakes and twig trees that children set up in sand piles. -"Not so darned bad!" cried Carlyle excitedly. - -"I guess that little coon knows his way round this corner of the -Atlantic." +"Not so darned bad!" cried Carlyle excitedly. "I guess that little +coon knows his way round this corner of the Atlantic." His exuberance was contagious, and Ardita became quite jubilant. @@ -941,8 +941,9 @@ States. By that time you'll have had a chance to think that gentleman over a little more." "Don't talk to me like that!" fired up Ardita. "I won't tolerate -the parental attitude from anybody! Do you understand me?" He -chuckled and then stopped, rather abashed, as her cold anger +the parental attitude from anybody! Do you understand me?" + +He chuckled and then stopped, rather abashed, as her cold anger seemed to fold him about and chill him. "I'm sorry," he offered uncertainly. @@ -960,6 +961,8 @@ seemed impossible for her to assume an ungraceful attitude. "Oh, look," she cried. "There's a lot of sort of ledges down there. Wide ones of all different heights." +"He joined her and together they gazed down the dizzy height." + "We'll go swimming to-night!" she said excitedly. "By moonlight." "Wouldn't you rather go in at the beach on the other end?" @@ -1542,7 +1545,7 @@ old man joined. The latter turned briskly to Carlyle, who had been regarding this scene with an air of cryptic amusement. -"Well Toby," he said genially, "you incurable, hare-brained +"Well, Toby," he said genially, "you incurable, hare-brained romantic chaser of rainbows, did you find that she was the person you wanted?" @@ -1591,7 +1594,7 @@ But it did not come. Ardita's face became suddenly radiant, and with a little laugh she went swiftly to young Moreland and looked up at him without a trace of wrath in her gray eyes. -"Will you swear," she said quietly "That it was entirely a +"Will you swear," she said quietly, "that it was entirely a product of your own brain?" "I swear," said young Moreland eagerly. diff --git a/4368-h/4368-h.htm b/4368-h/4368-h.htm index 2d162b9..e62dd8c 100644 --- a/4368-h/4368-h.htm +++ b/4368-h/4368-h.htm @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ other darn old town in this crazy state. So you either take me to Palm Beach or else shut up and go away."</p> <p>"Very well. This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this -man.—a man who is notorious for his excesses—a man your father +man—a man who is notorious for his excesses—a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name—you have rejected the demi-monde rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up. From now on——"</p> @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ ladder.</p> <h3>II</h3> -<p>Five o'clock robed down from the sun and plumped soundlessly into +<p>Five o'clock rolled down from the sun and plumped soundlessly into the sea. The golden collar widened into a glittering island; and a faint breeze that had been playing with the edges of the awning and swaying one of the dangling blue slippers became @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ harmony and in perfect rhythm to an accompanying sound of oars dealing the blue writers. Ardita lifted her head and listened.</p> <p class="poem"> -<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">"Carrots and Peas,</span><br > +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">"Carrots and peas,</span><br > <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Beans on their knees,</span><br > <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Pigs in the seas,</span><br > <span style="margin-left: 5em;">Lucky fellows!</span><br > @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ rowing and one standing up in the stern keeping time to their song with an orchestra leader's baton.</p> <p class="poem"> -<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">"Oysters and Rocks,</span><br > +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">"Oysters and rocks,</span><br > <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Sawdust and socks,</span><br > <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Who could make clocks</span><br > <span style="margin-left: 5em;">Out of cellos?——"</span><br > @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ said.</p> <p>"No," said his scornful mouth slowly; "No, I won't get off the yacht. You can get off if you wish."</p> -<p>Going to the rail be gave a curt command and immediately the crew +<p>Going to the rail he gave a curt command and immediately the crew of the rowboat scrambled up the ladder and ranged themselves in line before him, a coal-black and burly darky at one end and a miniature mulatto of four feet nine at to other. They seemed to @@ -400,6 +400,8 @@ together crisply. "Right <i>driss</i>! Front! Step out here, Babe!"</p> <p>The smallest Negro took a quick step forward and saluted.</p> +<p>"Yas-suh!".</p> + <p>"Take command, go down below, catch the crew and tie 'em up—all except the engineer. Bring him up to me. Oh, and pile those bags by the rail there."</p> @@ -439,7 +441,7 @@ decision whether it's go or stay."</p> <p>He picked up the book and opened it curiously.</p> <p>"The Revolt of the Angels. Sounds pretty good. French, eh?" He -stared at her with new interest "You French?"</p> +stared at her with new interest. "You French?"</p> <p>"No."</p> @@ -461,7 +463,7 @@ her hand was trembling a little; then she crossed over with her supple, swinging walk, and sitting down in the other settee blew a mouthful of smoke at the awning.</p> -<p>"You can't get me off this yacht," she raid steadily; "and you +<p>"You can't get me off this yacht," she said steadily; "and you haven't got very much sense if you think you'll get far with it. My uncle'll have wirelesses zigzagging all over this ocean by half past six."</p> @@ -722,7 +724,7 @@ seemed as if minute by minute the brightness and the great silence were increasing until he could almost hear the midnight toilet of the mermaids as they combed their silver dripping curls under the moon and gossiped to each other of the fine wrecks -they lived on the green opalescent avenues below.</p> +they lived in on the green opalescent avenues below.</p> <p>"You see," said Carlyle softly, "this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding—it's got to burst @@ -848,9 +850,8 @@ gold, a gilded bay smooth as glass and set round with tiny palms, the whole resembling the mirror lakes and twig trees that children set up in sand piles.</p> -<p>"Not so darned bad!" cried Carlyle excitedly.</p> - -<p>"I guess that little coon knows his way round this corner of the +<p>"Not so darned bad!" cried Carlyle excitedly. +"I guess that little coon knows his way round this corner of the Atlantic."</p> <p>His exuberance was contagious, and Ardita became quite jubilant.</p> @@ -969,8 +970,9 @@ States. By that time you'll have had a chance to think that gentleman over a little more."</p> <p>"Don't talk to me like that!" fired up Ardita. "I won't tolerate -the parental attitude from anybody! Do you understand me?" He -chuckled and then stopped, rather abashed, as her cold anger +the parental attitude from anybody! Do you understand me?"</p> + +<p>He chuckled and then stopped, rather abashed, as her cold anger seemed to fold him about and chill him.</p> <p>"I'm sorry," he offered uncertainly.</p> @@ -988,6 +990,8 @@ seemed impossible for her to assume an ungraceful attitude.</p> <p>"Oh, look," she cried. "There's a lot of sort of ledges down there. Wide ones of all different heights."</p> +<p>He joined her and together they gazed down the dizzy height.</p> + <p>"We'll go swimming to-night!" she said excitedly. "By moonlight."</p> <p>"Wouldn't you rather go in at the beach on the other end?"</p> @@ -1563,7 +1567,7 @@ old man joined.</p> <p>The latter turned briskly to Carlyle, who had been regarding this scene with an air of cryptic amusement.</p> -<p>"Well Toby," he said genially, "you incurable, hare-brained +<p>"Well, Toby," he said genially, "you incurable, hare-brained romantic chaser of rainbows, did you find that she was the person you wanted?"</p> @@ -1612,7 +1616,7 @@ expected crash.</p> with a little laugh she went swiftly to young Moreland and looked up at him without a trace of wrath in her gray eyes.</p> -<p>"Will you swear," she said quietly "That it was entirely a +<p>"Will you swear," she said quietly, "that it was entirely a product of your own brain?"</p> <p>"I swear," said young Moreland eagerly.</p> |
