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HTML version by Al Haines. - - - - - -</pre> - +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 541 ***</div> <BR><BR> -<H1 ALIGN="center"> +<H1> The Age of Innocence </H1> <BR> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<div class="h3"> by -</H3> +</div> -<H2 ALIGN="center"> +<div class="h2"> Edith Wharton -</H2> +</div> <BR><BR><BR> -<H2 ALIGN="center"> +<H2> CONTENTS </H2> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<H3> Book I </H3> <P> -<TABLE ALIGN="center" WIDTH="100%"> +<TABLE style="width: 100%;"> <TR> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap01">CHAPTER I</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap02">CHAPTER II</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap03">CHAPTER III</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap04">CHAPTER IV</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap05">CHAPTER V</A> </TD> </TR> <TR> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap06">CHAPTER VI</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap07">CHAPTER VII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap08">CHAPTER VIII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap09">CHAPTER IX</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap10">CHAPTER X</A> </TD> </TR> <TR> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap11">CHAPTER XI</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap12">CHAPTER XII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap13">CHAPTER XIII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap14">CHAPTER XIV</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap15">CHAPTER XV</A> </TD> </TR> <TR> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap16">CHAPTER XVI</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap17">CHAPTER XVII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap18">CHAPTER XVIII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> </TD> </TR> @@ -175,89 +165,89 @@ Book I <BR><BR> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<H3> Book II </H3> <P> -<TABLE ALIGN="center" WIDTH="100%"> +<TABLE style="width: 100%;"> <TR> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap19">CHAPTER XIX</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap20">CHAPTER XX</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap21">CHAPTER XXI</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap22">CHAPTER XXII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="20%"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 20%;"> <A HREF="#chap23">CHAPTER XXIII</A> </TD> </TR> <TR> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap24">CHAPTER XXIV</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap25">CHAPTER XXV</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap26">CHAPTER XXVI</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap27">CHAPTER XXVII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap28">CHAPTER XXVIII</A> </TD> </TR> <TR> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap29">CHAPTER XXIX</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap30">CHAPTER XXX</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap31">CHAPTER XXXI</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap32">CHAPTER XXXII</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap33">CHAPTER XXXIII</A> </TD> </TR> <TR> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> <A HREF="#chap34">CHAPTER XXXIV</A> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><A HREF="#note">A Note on the Text</A></TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> </TD> -<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> </TD> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><A HREF="#note">A Note on the Text</A></TD> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> </TD> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> </TD> +<TD style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap01"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap01"></A> +<H3> Book I </H3> <BR> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<H3> I. </H3> @@ -321,12 +311,12 @@ moment he looked forward to was so rare and exquisite in quality that—well, if he had timed his arrival in accord with the prima donna's stage-manager he could not have entered the Academy at a more significant moment than just as she was singing: "He loves me—he -loves me not—HE LOVES ME!—" and sprinkling the falling daisy petals +loves me not—<i>he loves me</i>!—" and sprinkling the falling daisy petals with notes as clear as dew. </P> <P> -She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an +She sang, of course, "<i>M'ama</i>!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of @@ -338,7 +328,7 @@ flower (preferably a gardenia) in his buttonhole. </P> <P> -"M'ama ... non m'ama ..." the prima donna sang, and "M'ama!", with a +"<i>M'ama ... non m'ama ...</i>" the prima donna sang, and "<i>M'ama</i>!", with a final burst of love triumphant, as she pressed the dishevelled daisy to her lips and lifted her large eyes to the sophisticated countenance of the little brown Faust-Capoul, who was vainly trying, in a tight purple @@ -356,7 +346,7 @@ by some of the younger members of the family. On this occasion, the front of the box was filled by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lovell Mingott, and her daughter, Mrs. Welland; and slightly withdrawn behind these brocaded matrons sat a young girl in white with eyes ecstatically -fixed on the stagelovers. As Madame Nilsson's "M'ama!" thrilled out +fixed on the stage-lovers. As Madame Nilsson's "<i>M'ama</i>!" thrilled out above the silent house (the boxes always stopped talking during the Daisy Song) a warm pink mounted to the girl's cheek, mantled her brow to the roots of her fair braids, and suffused the young slope of her @@ -535,8 +525,8 @@ it on." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap02"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap02"></A> +<H3> II. </H3> @@ -645,7 +635,7 @@ eat sauces?" Newland Archer, as he mused on these things, had once more turned his eyes toward the Mingott box. He saw that Mrs. Welland and her sister-in-law were facing their semicircle of critics with the -Mingottian APLOMB which old Catherine had inculcated in all her tribe, +Mingottian <i>aplomb</i> which old Catherine had inculcated in all her tribe, and that only May Welland betrayed, by a heightened colour (perhaps due to the knowledge that he was watching her) a sense of the gravity of the situation. As for the cause of the commotion, she sat gracefully @@ -669,7 +659,7 @@ of the dictates of Taste. <P> "After all," he heard one of the younger men begin behind him (everybody talked through the Mephistopheles-and-Martha scenes), "after -all, just WHAT happened?" +all, just <i>what</i> happened?" </P> <P> @@ -718,7 +708,7 @@ home." <P> This was greeted with an irreverent laugh, and the youth blushed deeply, and tried to look as if he had meant to insinuate what knowing -people called a "double entendre." +people called a "<i>double entendre</i>." </P> <P> @@ -782,7 +772,7 @@ what he was doing, Archer seated himself at the Countess Olenska's side. </P> <P> -"We DID use to play together, didn't we?" she asked, turning her grave +"We <i>did</i> use to play together, didn't we?" she asked, turning her grave eyes to his. "You were a horrid boy, and kissed me once behind a door; but it was your cousin Vandie Newland, who never looked at me, that I was in love with." Her glance swept the horse-shoe curve of boxes. @@ -808,8 +798,8 @@ disrespectful way of describing New York society. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap03"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap03"></A> +<H3> III. </H3> @@ -847,7 +837,7 @@ of America's most honoured families; she had been the lovely Regina Dallas (of the South Carolina branch), a penniless beauty introduced to New York society by her cousin, the imprudent Medora Manson, who was always doing the wrong thing from the right motive. When one was -related to the Mansons and the Rushworths one had a "droit de cite" (as +related to the Mansons and the Rushworths one had a "<i>droit de cité</i>" (as Mr. Sillerton Jackson, who had frequented the Tuileries, called it) in New York society; but did one not forfeit it in marrying Julius Beaufort? @@ -917,7 +907,7 @@ ladies take their cloaks off in the hall, instead of shuffling up to the hostess's bedroom and recurling their hair with the aid of the gas-burner; Beaufort was understood to have said that he supposed all his wife's friends had maids who saw to it that they were properly -coiffees when they left home. +<i>coiffées</i> when they left home. </P> <P> @@ -966,7 +956,7 @@ the ball-room door. Couples were already gliding over the floor beyond: the light of the wax candles fell on revolving tulle skirts, on girlish heads wreathed with modest blossoms, on the dashing aigrettes and ornaments of the young married women's coiffures, and on the -glitter of highly glazed shirt-fronts and fresh glace gloves. +glitter of highly glazed shirt-fronts and fresh <i>glacé</i> gloves. </P> <P> @@ -1126,8 +1116,8 @@ Olenska's reputation." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap04"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap04"></A> +<H3> IV. </H3> @@ -1161,7 +1151,7 @@ advance of residences as stately as her own—perhaps (for she was an impartial woman) even statelier; and that the cobble-stones over which the old clattering omnibuses bumped would be replaced by smooth asphalt, such as people reported having seen in Paris. Meanwhile, as -every one she cared to see came to HER (and she could fill her rooms as +every one she cared to see came to <i>her</i> (and she could fill her rooms as easily as the Beauforts, and without adding a single item to the menu of her suppers), she did not suffer from her geographic isolation. </P> @@ -1190,7 +1180,7 @@ independence she had made her reception rooms upstairs and established herself (in flagrant violation of all the New York proprieties) on the ground floor of her house; so that, as you sat in her sitting-room window with her, you caught (through a door that was always open, and a -looped-back yellow damask portiere) the unexpected vista of a bedroom +looped-back yellow damask portière) the unexpected vista of a bedroom with a huge low bed upholstered like a sofa, and a toilet-table with frivolous lace flounces and a gilt-framed mirror. </P> @@ -1346,8 +1336,8 @@ and about to ally himself with one of his own kind. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap05"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap05"></A> +<H3> V. </H3> @@ -1407,7 +1397,7 @@ Mrs. Archer, who had long been a widow, lived with her son and daughter in West Twenty-eighth Street. An upper floor was dedicated to Newland, and the two women squeezed themselves into narrower quarters below. In an unclouded harmony of tastes and interests they cultivated ferns in -Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, +Wardian cases, made <i>macramé</i> lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to "Good Words," and read Ouida's novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere. (They preferred those about peasant life, because of the descriptions @@ -1472,11 +1462,11 @@ They began, obliquely, by talking about Mrs. Lemuel Struthers. <P> "It's a pity the Beauforts asked her," Mrs. Archer said gently. "But -then Regina always does what he tells her; and BEAUFORT—" +then Regina always does what he tells her; and <i>Beaufort</i>—" </P> <P> -"Certain nuances escape Beaufort," said Mr. Jackson, cautiously +"Certain <i>nuances</i> escape Beaufort," said Mr. Jackson, cautiously inspecting the broiled shad, and wondering for the thousandth time why Mrs. Archer's cook always burnt the roe to a cinder. (Newland, who had long shared his wonder, could always detect it in the older man's @@ -1495,14 +1485,14 @@ the unmarried. </P> <P> -"But this Mrs. Struthers," Mrs. Archer continued; "what did you say SHE +"But this Mrs. Struthers," Mrs. Archer continued; "what did you say <i>she</i> was, Sillerton?" </P> <P> "Out of a mine: or rather out of the saloon at the head of the pit. Then with Living Wax-Works, touring New England. After the police -broke THAT up, they say she lived—" Mr. Jackson in his turn glanced +broke <i>that</i> up, they say she lived—" Mr. Jackson in his turn glanced at Janey, whose eyes began to bulge from under her prominent lids. There were still hiatuses for her in Mrs. Struthers's past. </P> @@ -1523,7 +1513,7 @@ Mrs. Archer indifferently. The ladies were not really interested in Mrs. Struthers just then; the subject of Ellen Olenska was too fresh and too absorbing to them. Indeed, Mrs. Struthers's name had been introduced by Mrs. Archer only that she might presently be able to say: -"And Newland's new cousin—Countess Olenska? Was SHE at the ball too?" +"And Newland's new cousin—Countess Olenska? Was <i>she</i> at the ball too?" </P> <P> @@ -1551,7 +1541,7 @@ that she had been perturbed by the premature announcement of his engagement, or rather by its cause; and it was for that reason—because on the whole he was a tender and indulgent master—that he had stayed at home that evening. "It's not that I don't approve of the Mingotts' -esprit de corps; but why Newland's engagement should be mixed up with +<i>esprit de corps</i>; but why Newland's engagement should be mixed up with that Olenska woman's comings and goings I don't see," Mrs. Archer grumbled to Janey, the only witness of her slight lapses from perfect sweetness. @@ -1609,7 +1599,7 @@ all these foreign marriages!" <P> Mrs. Archer ignored the allusion to the ancestral cuisine and Mr. -Jackson continued with deliberation: "No, she was NOT at the ball." +Jackson continued with deliberation: "No, she was <i>not</i> at the ball." </P> <P> @@ -1792,8 +1782,8 @@ back." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap06"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap06"></A> +<H3> VI. </H3> @@ -1836,7 +1826,7 @@ pledged to defend, on the part of his betrothed's cousin, conduct that, on his own wife's part, would justify him in calling down on her all the thunders of Church and State. Of course the dilemma was purely hypothetical; since he wasn't a blackguard Polish nobleman, it was -absurd to speculate what his wife's rights would be if he WERE. But +absurd to speculate what his wife's rights would be if he <i>were</i>. But Newland Archer was too imaginative not to feel that, in his case and May's, the tie might gall for reasons far less gross and palpable. What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, @@ -1897,7 +1887,7 @@ ideas that she was beginning to develop under his guidance. (She had advanced far enough to join him in ridiculing the Idyls of the King, but not to feel the beauty of Ulysses and the Lotus Eaters.) She was straightforward, loyal and brave; she had a sense of humour (chiefly -proved by her laughing at HIS jokes); and he suspected, in the depths +proved by her laughing at <i>his</i> jokes); and he suspected, in the depths of her innocently-gazing soul, a glow of feeling that it would be a joy to waken. But when he had gone the brief round of her he returned discouraged by the thought that all this frankness and innocence were @@ -2097,8 +2087,8 @@ Society left." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap07"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap07"></A> +<H3> VII. </H3> @@ -2229,7 +2219,7 @@ complete an image of its owners. </P> <P> -"But I hope you HAD finished your reading, Henry?" his wife interposed. +"But I hope you <i>had</i> finished your reading, Henry?" his wife interposed. </P> <P> @@ -2248,8 +2238,8 @@ inflicted on Mrs. Lovell Mingott. <P> "Of course," she ended, "Augusta Welland and Mary Mingott both felt -that, especially in view of Newland's engagement, you and Henry OUGHT -TO KNOW." +that, especially in view of Newland's engagement, you and Henry <i>ought +to know</i>." </P> <P> @@ -2289,11 +2279,11 @@ lightning-rod; I've seen him try the same thing often before." </P> <P> -"The LEFFERTSES!—" said Mrs. van der Luyden. +"The <i>Leffertses</i>!—" said Mrs. van der Luyden. </P> <P> -"The LEFFERTSES!—" echoed Mrs. Archer. "What would uncle Egmont have +"The <i>Leffertses</i>!—" echoed Mrs. Archer. "What would uncle Egmont have said of Lawrence Lefferts's pronouncing on anybody's social position? It shows what Society has come to." </P> @@ -2418,8 +2408,8 @@ Patti ought to attempt the Sonnambula." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap08"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap08"></A> +<H3> VIII. </H3> @@ -2516,7 +2506,7 @@ gone. The red cheeks had paled; she was thin, worn, a little older-looking than her age, which must have been nearly thirty. But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without -being in the least theatrical, struck his as highly trained and full of +being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of a conscious power. At the same time she was simpler in manner than most of the ladies present, and many people (as he heard afterward from Janey) were disappointed that her appearance was not more @@ -2524,7 +2514,7 @@ Janey) were disappointed that her appearance was not more perhaps, Archer reflected, because her early vivacity had disappeared; because she was so quiet—quiet in her movements, her voice, and the tones of her low-pitched voice. New York had expected something a good -deal more reasonant in a young woman with such a history. +deal more resonant in a young woman with such a history. </P> <P> @@ -2678,7 +2668,7 @@ trembled. </P> <P> -"I'm so sorry," he said impulsively; "but you ARE among friends here, +"I'm so sorry," he said impulsively; "but you <i>are</i> among friends here, you know." </P> @@ -2762,8 +2752,8 @@ lovelier. The Duke thinks her the handsomest girl in the room." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap09"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap09"></A> +<H3> IX. </H3> @@ -3040,7 +3030,7 @@ She looked amused. "Why—have you waited long? Mr. Beaufort took me to see a number of houses—since it seems I'm not to be allowed to stay in this one." She appeared to dismiss both Beaufort and himself from her mind, and went on: "I've never been in a city where there seems to -be such a feeling against living in des quartiers excentriques. What +be such a feeling against living in <i>des quartiers excentriques</i>. What does it matter where one lives? I'm told this street is respectable." </P> @@ -3200,7 +3190,7 @@ She lifted her thin black eyebrows. "Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it so straight up and down—like Fifth Avenue. And with all the cross streets numbered!" She seemed to guess his faint disapproval of this, and added, with the rare smile that enchanted her whole face: -"If you knew how I like it for just THAT—the straight-up-and-downness, +"If you knew how I like it for just <i>that</i>—the straight-up-and-downness, and the big honest labels on everything!" </P> @@ -3263,7 +3253,7 @@ Suddenly Nastasia put her head in to say something in her rich Italian. <P> Madame Olenska, again with a hand at her hair, uttered an exclamation of assent—a flashing "Gia—gia"—and the Duke of St. Austrey entered, -piloting a tremendous blackwigged and red-plumed lady in overflowing +piloting a tremendous black-wigged and red-plumed lady in overflowing furs. </P> @@ -3348,8 +3338,8 @@ The florist assured him that they would. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap10"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap10"></A> +<H3> X. </H3> @@ -3492,7 +3482,7 @@ her eyes rested on him with a bright unclouded admiration. </P> <P> -"You DO love me, Newland! I'm so happy." +"You <i>do</i> love me, Newland! I'm so happy." </P> <P> @@ -3608,7 +3598,7 @@ With a groan he plunged back into his book. </P> <P> -"NEWLAND! Do listen. Your friend Madame Olenska was at Mrs. Lemuel +"<i>Newland!</i> Do listen. Your friend Madame Olenska was at Mrs. Lemuel Struthers's party last night: she went there with the Duke and Mr. Beaufort." </P> @@ -3670,7 +3660,7 @@ into tears, and felt ashamed of the useless pain he was inflicting. </P> <P> -"No; but you DID ask the Wellands to announce your engagement sooner so +"No; but you <i>did</i> ask the Wellands to announce your engagement sooner so that we might all back her up; and if it hadn't been for that cousin Louisa would never have invited her to the dinner for the Duke." </P> @@ -3789,7 +3779,7 @@ the sensitive tone that was her nearest approach to anger. </P> <P> -The sad butler drew back the drawing-room portieres and announced: +The sad butler drew back the drawing-room portières and announced: "Mr. Henry van der Luyden." </P> @@ -3870,7 +3860,7 @@ troubled. So I thought the shortest way was to go straight to Countess Olenska and explain—by the merest hint, you know—how we feel in New York about certain things. I felt I might, without indelicacy, because the evening she dined with us she rather suggested ... rather let me -see that she would be grateful for guidance. And she WAS." +see that she would be grateful for guidance. And she <i>was</i>." </P> <P> @@ -3900,7 +3890,7 @@ to take the Duke to the Opera." </P> <P> -After the portieres had solemnly closed behind their visitor a silence +After the portières had solemnly closed behind their visitor a silence fell upon the Archer family. </P> @@ -3924,8 +3914,8 @@ away her frown. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap11"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap11"></A> +<H3> XI. </H3> @@ -3938,7 +3928,7 @@ attorneys at law, was summoned by the head of the firm. <P> Old Mr. Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New York gentility, throned behind his mahogany desk in evident -perplexity. As he stroked his closeclipped white whiskers and ran his +perplexity. As he stroked his close-clipped white whiskers and ran his hand through the rumpled grey locks above his jutting brows, his disrespectful junior partner thought how much he looked like the Family Physician annoyed with a patient whose symptoms refuse to be classified. @@ -4219,7 +4209,7 @@ why, sir? If there ever was a case—" </P> <P> -"Well—what's the use? SHE'S here—he's there; the Atlantic's between +"Well—what's the use? <i>she's</i> here—he's there; the Atlantic's between them. She'll never get back a dollar more of her money than what he's voluntarily returned to her: their damned heathen marriage settlements take precious good care of that. As things go over there, Olenski's @@ -4326,8 +4316,8 @@ pleaded an engagement and took leave. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap12"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap12"></A> +<H3> XII. </H3> @@ -4416,7 +4406,7 @@ universe. He knew that there were societies where painters and poets and novelists and men of science, and even great actors, were as sought after as Dukes; he had often pictured to himself what it would have been to live in the intimacy of drawing-rooms dominated by the talk of -Merimee (whose "Lettres a une Inconnue" was one of his inseparables), +Mérimée (whose "Lettres à une Inconnue" was one of his inseparables), of Thackeray, Browning or William Morris. But such things were inconceivable in New York, and unsettling to think of. Archer knew most of the "fellows who wrote," the musicians and the painters: he met @@ -4563,7 +4553,7 @@ reputation in order to break with it. </P> <P> -"I do think," she went on, addressing both men, "that the imprevu adds +"I do think," she went on, addressing both men, "that the <i>imprévu</i> adds to one's enjoyment. It's perhaps a mistake to see the same people every day." </P> @@ -4865,7 +4855,7 @@ He winced a little. "It's not unnatural—" </P> <P> -"OUR family," she corrected herself; and Archer coloured. "For you'll +"<i>Our</i> family," she corrected herself; and Archer coloured. "For you'll be my cousin soon," she continued gently. </P> @@ -4984,8 +4974,8 @@ night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap13"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap13"></A> +<H3> XIII. </H3> @@ -5078,7 +5068,7 @@ frightened, she was desperate—what more natural than that she should be grateful to her rescuer? The pity was that her gratitude put her, in the law's eyes and the world's, on a par with her abominable husband. Archer had made her understand this, as he was bound to do; -he had also made her understand that simplehearted kindly New York, on +he had also made her understand that simple-hearted kindly New York, on whose larger charity she had apparently counted, was precisely the place where she could least hope for indulgence. </P> @@ -5226,7 +5216,7 @@ at such a moment. </P> <P> -"And I wanted to tell you that I DO feel you were right; and that I'm +"And I wanted to tell you that I <i>do</i> feel you were right; and that I'm grateful to you," she ended, lifting her opera-glass quickly to her eyes as the door of the box opened and Beaufort's resonant voice broke in on them. @@ -5268,8 +5258,8 @@ Olenska was lonely and she was unhappy. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap14"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap14"></A> +<H3> XIV. </H3> @@ -5423,7 +5413,7 @@ usually remained within the limits of a pensive dilettantism. "The fact is, life isn't much a fit for either of us," Winsett had once said. "I'm down and out; nothing to be done about it. I've got only one ware to produce, and there's no market for it here, and won't be in -my time. But you're free and you're well-off. Why don't you get into +my time. But you're free and you're well-off. Why don't <i>you</i> get into touch? There's only one way to do it: to go into politics." </P> @@ -5540,7 +5530,7 @@ thought was of some dark menace from abroad; then he reflected that he did not know her epistolary style, and that it might run to picturesque exaggeration. Women always exaggerated; and moreover she was not wholly at her ease in English, which she often spoke as if she were -translating from the French. "Je me suis evadee—" put in that way, +translating from the French. "Je me suis évadée—" put in that way, the opening sentence immediately suggested that she might merely have wanted to escape from a boring round of engagements; which was very likely true, for he judged her to be capricious, and easily wearied of @@ -5583,8 +5573,8 @@ there was always a room to spare in her elastic house. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap15"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap15"></A> +<H3> XV. </H3> @@ -5965,7 +5955,7 @@ his own set. This was the man from whom Madame Olenska was avowedly flying: the question was whether she had fled because his importunities displeased her, or because she did not wholly trust herself to resist them; unless, indeed, all her talk of flight had been a blind, and her -departure no more than a manoeuvre. +departure no more than a manœuvre. </P> <P> @@ -6073,8 +6063,8 @@ leaving that very afternoon for St. Augustine. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap16"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap16"></A> +<H3> XVI. </H3> @@ -6372,9 +6362,9 @@ understand how I want you for my wife?" <P> For a moment she remained motionless; then she raised on him eyes of -such despairing dearness that he half-released her waist from his hold. +such despairing clearness that he half-released her waist from his hold. But suddenly her look changed and deepened inscrutably. "I'm not sure -if I DO understand," she said. "Is it—is it because you're not +if I <i>do</i> understand," she said. "Is it—is it because you're not certain of continuing to care for me?" </P> @@ -6454,7 +6444,7 @@ inexpressible relief. </P> <P> -"My dear child—was THAT it? If you only knew the truth!" +"My dear child—was <i>that</i> it? If you only knew the truth!" </P> <P> @@ -6535,8 +6525,8 @@ stood up and walked silently home. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap17"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap17"></A> +<H3> XVII. </H3> @@ -6634,7 +6624,7 @@ Mrs. Manson Mingott screwed up her little mouth into a grimace of mimic prudery and twinkled at him through malicious lids. "'Ask Mamma,' I suppose—the usual story. Ah, these Mingotts—all alike! Born in a rut, and you can't root 'em out of it. When I built this house you'd -have thought I was moving to California! Nobody ever HAD built above +have thought I was moving to California! Nobody ever <i>had</i> built above Fortieth Street—no, says I, nor above the Battery either, before Christopher Columbus discovered America. No, no; not one of them wants to be different; they're as scared of it as the small-pox. Ah, my dear @@ -6663,7 +6653,7 @@ Old Catherine beamed on him approvingly. "No; I can see that. You've got a quick eye. When you were a little boy I've no doubt you liked to be helped first." She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves. "Ah, here's my Ellen now!" she -exclaimed, as the portieres parted behind her. +exclaimed, as the portières parted behind her. </P> <P> @@ -6897,8 +6887,8 @@ street. This house has been an oasis." </P> <P> -"Ah, but she won't abandon YOU. Poetry and art are the breath of life -to her. It IS poetry you write, Mr. Winsett?" +"Ah, but she won't abandon <i>you</i>. Poetry and art are the breath of life +to her. It <i>is</i> poetry you write, Mr. Winsett?" </P> <P> @@ -6907,7 +6897,7 @@ in a general nod and slipping out of the room. </P> <P> -"A caustic spirit—un peu sauvage. But so witty; Dr. Carver, you DO +"A caustic spirit—<i>un peu sauvage</i>. But so witty; Dr. Carver, you <i>do</i> think him witty?" </P> @@ -6954,15 +6944,9 @@ happy. But I fear my Ellen counts on Mr. Archer herself." handed it to Archer, who read on it, in Gothic characters: </P> -<PRE> - +—————————————-+ - | Agathon Carver | - | The Valley of Love | - | Kittasquattamy, N. Y. | - +—————————————-+ -</PRE> - -<BR> +<div class="bbox">Agathon Carver<br> + The Valley of Love<br> + Kittasquattamy, N. Y.</div> <P> Dr. Carver bowed himself out, and Mrs. Manson, with a sigh that might @@ -7093,15 +7077,15 @@ listened. <P> "Here she comes," she said in a rapid whisper; and then, pointing to -the bouquet on the sofa: "Am I to understand that you prefer THAT, Mr. +the bouquet on the sofa: "Am I to understand that you prefer <i>that</i>, Mr. Archer? After all, marriage is marriage ... and my niece is still a wife..." </P> <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap18"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap18"></A> +<H3> XVIII. </H3> @@ -7337,7 +7321,7 @@ too intelligent to be the slave of such absurd superstitions." </P> <P> -"She IS too intelligent—she's not their slave." +"She <i>is</i> too intelligent—she's not their slave." </P> <P> @@ -7384,7 +7368,7 @@ horses. </P> <P> -"That IS noble," she said, with a slight break in her voice. +"That <i>is</i> noble," she said, with a slight break in her voice. </P> <P> @@ -7479,11 +7463,11 @@ of light tore its blinding way. </P> <P> -"I'VE made it impossible—?" +"<i>I've</i> made it impossible—?" </P> <P> -"You, you, YOU!" she cried, her lip trembling like a child's on the +"You, you, <i>you</i>!" she cried, her lip trembling like a child's on the verge of tears. "Isn't it you who made me give up divorcing—give it up because you showed me how selfish and wicked it was, how one must sacrifice one's self to preserve the dignity of marriage ... and to @@ -7669,7 +7653,7 @@ before—and it's better than anything I've known." She spoke in a low even voice, without tears or visible agitation; and each word, as it dropped from her, fell into his breast like burning lead. He sat bowed over, his head between his hands, staring at the -hearthrug, and at the tip of the satin shoe that showed under her +hearth-rug, and at the tip of the satin shoe that showed under her dress. Suddenly he knelt down and kissed the shoe. </P> @@ -7721,7 +7705,7 @@ lonely I've no right to keep you from your friends." <P> She smiled a little under her wet lashes. "I shan't be lonely now. I -WAS lonely; I WAS afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; +<i>was</i> lonely; I <i>was</i> afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light." </P> @@ -7871,14 +7855,14 @@ keep on laughing? Do hush, or you'll wake Mamma." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap19"></A> -<H2 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap19"></A> +<H2> Book II </H2> <BR><BR> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<H3> XIX. </H3> @@ -7939,7 +7923,7 @@ of his responsibility. Archer made the gesture which he had seen so many bridegrooms make: with his ungloved right hand he felt in the pocket of his dark grey waistcoat, and assured himself that the little gold circlet (engraved -inside: Newland to May, April —-, 187-) was in its place; then, +inside: <i>Newland to May, April —, 187—</i>) was in its place; then, resuming his former attitude, his tall hat and pearl-grey gloves with black stitchings grasped in his left hand, he stood looking at the door of the church. @@ -8024,7 +8008,7 @@ somewhere, and real things happening to them ..." </P> <P> -"THERE THEY COME!" breathed the best man excitedly; but the bridegroom +"<i>There they come!</i>" breathed the best man excitedly; but the bridegroom knew better. </P> @@ -8066,8 +8050,8 @@ curbstone. The idea of doing away with this awning, and revealing the bride to the mob of dressmakers and newspaper reporters who stood outside fighting to get near the joints of the canvas, exceeded even old Catherine's courage, though for a moment she had weighed the -possibility. "Why, they might take a photograph of my child AND PUT IT -IN THE PAPERS!" Mrs. Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was +possibility. "Why, they might take a photograph of my child <i>and put it +in the papers</i>!" Mrs. Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was hinted to her; and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder. The ancestress had had to give in; but her concession was bought only by the promise that the wedding-breakfast @@ -8106,12 +8090,12 @@ the wedding. For a moment Archer stood with his eyes fixed on Medora's fantastic figure, straining to see who came behind her; but the little procession was at an end, for all the lesser members of the family had taken their seats, and the eight tall ushers, gathering themselves -together like birds or insects preparing for some migratory manoeuvre, +together like birds or insects preparing for some migratory manœuvre, were already slipping through the side doors into the lobby. </P> <P> -"Newland—I say: SHE'S HERE!" the best man whispered. +"Newland—I say: <i>she's here!</i>" the best man whispered. </P> <P> @@ -8140,7 +8124,7 @@ brain. </P> <P> -"My God," he thought, "HAVE I got the ring?"—and once more he went +"My God," he thought, "<i>have</i> I got the ring?"—and once more he went through the bridegroom's convulsive gesture. </P> @@ -8163,7 +8147,7 @@ emerged upon New York. </P> <P> -"Your arm—I SAY, GIVE HER YOUR ARM!" young Newland nervously hissed; +"Your arm—I <i>say, give her your arm!</i>" young Newland nervously hissed; and once more Archer became aware of having been adrift far off in the unknown. What was it that had sent him there, he wondered? Perhaps the glimpse, among the anonymous spectators in the transept, of a dark @@ -8193,13 +8177,13 @@ clasped under her veil. him and he felt himself sinking into it, deeper and deeper, while his voice rambled on smoothly and cheerfully: "Yes, of course I thought I'd lost the ring; no wedding would be complete if the poor devil of a -bridegroom didn't go through that. But you DID keep me waiting, you +bridegroom didn't go through that. But you <i>did</i> keep me waiting, you know! I had time to think of every horror that might possibly happen." </P> <P> She surprised him by turning, in full Fifth Avenue, and flinging her -arms about his neck. "But none ever CAN happen now, can it, Newland, +arms about his neck. "But none ever <i>can</i> happen now, can it, Newland, as long as we two are together?" </P> @@ -8354,8 +8338,8 @@ beginning—the wonderful luck we're always going to have together!" <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap20"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap20"></A> +<H3> XX. </H3> @@ -8382,7 +8366,7 @@ word with a "foreigner" other than those employed in hotels and railway-stations. Their own compatriots—save those previously known or properly accredited—they treated with an even more pronounced disdain; so that, unless they ran across a Chivers, a Dagonet or a -Mingott, their months abroad were spent in an unbroken tete-a-tete. +Mingott, their months abroad were spent in an unbroken <i>tête-à-tête</i>. But the utmost precautions are sometimes unavailing; and one night at Botzen one of the two English ladies in the room across the passage (whose names, dress and social situation were already intimately known @@ -8415,7 +8399,7 @@ out when they were to pass through London on their way to or from the States. The intimacy became indissoluble, and Mrs. Archer and Janey, whenever they alighted at Brown's Hotel, found themselves awaited by two affectionate friends who, like themselves, cultivated ferns in -Wardian cases, made macrame lace, read the memoirs of the Baroness +Wardian cases, made macramé lace, read the memoirs of the Baroness Bunsen and had views about the occupants of the leading London pulpits. As Mrs. Archer said, it made "another thing of London" to know Mrs. Carfry and Miss Harle; and by the time that Newland became engaged the @@ -8435,7 +8419,7 @@ was wrinkling her brows across the tea and muffins. </P> <P> -"It's all very well for you, Newland; you KNOW them. But I shall feel +"It's all very well for you, Newland; you <i>know</i> them. But I shall feel so shy among a lot of people I've never met. And what shall I wear?" </P> @@ -8453,7 +8437,7 @@ last week." </P> <P> -"Yes, of course. I meant to say that I shan't know WHICH to wear." +"Yes, of course. I meant to say that I shan't know <i>which</i> to wear." She pouted a little. "I've never dined out in London; and I don't want to be ridiculous." </P> @@ -8532,14 +8516,14 @@ expected. She regarded it (once her clothes were ordered) as merely an enlarged opportunity for walking, riding, swimming, and trying her hand at the fascinating new game of lawn tennis; and when they finally got back to London (where they were to spend a fortnight while he ordered -HIS clothes) she no longer concealed the eagerness with which she +<i>his</i> clothes) she no longer concealed the eagerness with which she looked forward to sailing. </P> <P> In London nothing interested her but the theatres and the shops; and -she found the theatres less exciting than the Paris cafes chantants -where, under the blossoming horse-chestnuts of the Champs Elysees, she +she found the theatres less exciting than the Paris <i>cafés chantants</i> +where, under the blossoming horse-chestnuts of the Champs Élysées, she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears. @@ -8688,9 +8672,9 @@ and suddenly Archer found himself talking as he had not done since his last symposium with Ned Winsett. The Carfry nephew, it turned out, had been threatened with consumption, and had had to leave Harrow for Switzerland, where he had spent two years in the milder air of Lake -Leman. Being a bookish youth, he had been entrusted to M. Riviere, who +Leman. Being a bookish youth, he had been entrusted to M. Rivière, who had brought him back to England, and was to remain with him till he -went up to Oxford the following spring; and M. Riviere added with +went up to Oxford the following spring; and M. Rivière added with simplicity that he should then have to look out for another job. </P> @@ -8710,9 +8694,9 @@ insatiable taste for letters had thrown the young man into journalism, then into authorship (apparently unsuccessful), and at length—after other experiments and vicissitudes which he spared his listener—into tutoring English youths in Switzerland. Before that, however, he had -lived much in Paris, frequented the Goncourt grenier, been advised by +lived much in Paris, frequented the Goncourt <i>grenier</i>, been advised by Maupassant not to attempt to write (even that seemed to Archer a -dazzling honour!), and had often talked with Merimee in his mother's +dazzling honour!), and had often talked with Mérimée in his mother's house. He had obviously always been desperately poor and anxious (having a mother and an unmarried sister to provide for), and it was apparent that his literary ambitions had failed. His situation, in @@ -8730,14 +8714,14 @@ intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship. There is a good deal of drudgery, of course; but one -preserves one's moral freedom, what we call in French one's quant a -soi. And when one hears good talk one can join in it without +preserves one's moral freedom, what we call in French one's <i>quant à +soi</i>. And when one hears good talk one can join in it without compromising any opinions but one's own; or one can listen, and answer it inwardly. Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism—two different forms of the same self-abdication." He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he -lit another cigarette. "Voyez-vous, Monsieur, to be able to look life +lit another cigarette. "<i>Voyez-vous</i>, Monsieur, to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? But, after all, one must earn enough to pay for the garret; and I confess that to grow old as a private tutor—or a 'private' anything—is almost as @@ -8750,7 +8734,7 @@ New York?" <P> Archer looked at him with startled eyes. New York, for a young man who had frequented the Goncourts and Flaubert, and who thought the life of -ideas the only one worth living! He continued to stare at M. Riviere +ideas the only one worth living! He continued to stare at M. Rivière perplexedly, wondering how to tell him that his very superiorities and advantages would be the surest hindrance to success. </P> @@ -8763,7 +8747,7 @@ necessity. </P> <P> -A sudden flush rose under M. Riviere's sallow skin. "I—I thought it +A sudden flush rose under M. Rivière's sallow skin. "I—I thought it your metropolis: is not the intellectual life more active there?" he rejoined; then, as if fearing to give his hearer the impression of having asked a favour, he went on hastily: "One throws out random @@ -8775,7 +8759,7 @@ taking you upstairs." <P> During the homeward drive Archer pondered deeply on this episode. His -hour with M. Riviere had put new air into his lungs, and his first +hour with M. Rivière had put new air into his lungs, and his first impulse had been to invite him to dine the next day; but he was beginning to understand why married men did not always immediately yield to their first impulses. @@ -8810,7 +8794,7 @@ But Archer was on edge, and took her up. </P> <P> -"Common—common WHERE?" he queried; and she returned with unusual +"Common—common <i>where</i>?" he queried; and she returned with unusual readiness: "Why, I should say anywhere but in his school-room. Those people are always awkward in society. But then," she added disarmingly, "I suppose I shouldn't have known if he was clever." @@ -8851,15 +8835,15 @@ tutors: what does he want to do?" <P> "Chiefly to enjoy good conversation, I understand," her husband retorted perversely; and she broke into an appreciative laugh. "Oh, -Newland, how funny! Isn't that FRENCH?" +Newland, how funny! Isn't that <i>French</i>?" </P> <P> On the whole, he was glad to have the matter settled for him by her -refusing to take seriously his wish to invite M. Riviere. Another +refusing to take seriously his wish to invite M. Rivière. Another after-dinner talk would have made it difficult to avoid the question of New York; and the more Archer considered it the less he was able to fit -M. Riviere into any conceivable picture of New York as he knew it. +M. Rivière into any conceivable picture of New York as he knew it. </P> <P> @@ -8875,8 +8859,8 @@ angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap21"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap21"></A> +<H3> XXI. </H3> @@ -9103,8 +9087,8 @@ not catch. </P> <P> -The Marchioness replied by one of her queer foreign jerks, and a "Que -voulez-vous?" which deepened Beaufort's frown; but he produced a good +The Marchioness replied by one of her queer foreign jerks, and a "<i>Que +voulez-vous?</i>" which deepened Beaufort's frown; but he produced a good semblance of a congratulatory smile as he glanced at Archer to say: "You know May's going to carry off the first prize." </P> @@ -9150,7 +9134,7 @@ kind of target she'll ever hit." <P> Archer felt irrationally angry. His host's contemptuous tribute to May's "niceness" was just what a husband should have wished to hear -said of his wife. The fact that a coarseminded man found her lacking +said of his wife. The fact that a coarse-minded man found her lacking in attraction was simply another proof of her quality; yet the words sent a faint shiver through his heart. What if "niceness" carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an @@ -9177,7 +9161,7 @@ Archer sitting at her side. <P> The afternoon sunlight still lingered upon the bright lawns and shrubberies, and up and down Bellevue Avenue rolled a double line of -victorias, dog-carts, landaus and "vis-a-vis," carrying well-dressed +victorias, dog-carts, landaus and "vis-à-vis," carrying well-dressed ladies and gentlemen away from the Beaufort garden-party, or homeward from their daily afternoon turn along the Ocean Drive. </P> @@ -9193,7 +9177,7 @@ Archer acquiesced, and she turned the ponies down Narragansett Avenue, crossed Spring Street and drove out toward the rocky moorland beyond. In this unfashionable region Catherine the Great, always indifferent to precedent and thrifty of purse, had built herself in her youth a -many-peaked and cross-beamed cottage-orne on a bit of cheap land +many-peaked and cross-beamed <i>cottage-orné</i> on a bit of cheap land overlooking the bay. Here, in a thicket of stunted oaks, her verandahs spread themselves above the island-dotted waters. A winding drive led up between iron stags and blue glass balls embedded in mounds of @@ -9238,7 +9222,7 @@ daughters—only boys, eh? Good gracious, look at her blushing again all over her blushes! What—can't I say that either? Mercy me—when my children beg me to have all those gods and goddesses painted out overhead I always say I'm too thankful to have somebody about me that -NOTHING can shock!" +<i>nothing</i> can shock!" </P> <P> @@ -9253,7 +9237,7 @@ thought she was going back to Portsmouth?" she answered placidly: "So she is—but she's got to come here first to pick up Ellen. Ah—you didn't know Ellen had come to spend the day with me? Such fol-de-rol, her not coming for the summer; but I gave up arguing with young people -about fifty years ago. Ellen—ELLEN!" she cried in her shrill old +about fifty years ago. Ellen—<i>Ellen</i>!" she cried in her shrill old voice, trying to bend forward far enough to catch a glimpse of the lawn beyond the verandah. </P> @@ -9388,7 +9372,7 @@ wonder if she wouldn't be happier with her husband." </P> <P> -He burst into a laugh. "Sancta simplicitas!" he exclaimed; and as she +He burst into a laugh. "<i>Sancta simplicitas!</i>" he exclaimed; and as she turned a puzzled frown on him he added: "I don't think I ever heard you say a cruel thing before." </P> @@ -9445,8 +9429,8 @@ trotters. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap22"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap22"></A> +<H3> XXII. </H3> @@ -9491,7 +9475,7 @@ and venerated family tree. He was, as people said, a man who had had mother a Pennilow of Boston; on each side there was wealth and position, and mutual suitability. Nothing—as Mrs. Welland had often remarked—nothing on earth obliged Emerson Sillerton to be an -archaeologist, or indeed a Professor of any sort, or to live in Newport +archæologist, or indeed a Professor of any sort, or to live in Newport in winter, or do any of the other revolutionary things that he did. But at least, if he was going to break with tradition and flout society in the face, he need not have married poor Amy Dagonet, who had a right @@ -9514,7 +9498,7 @@ and send an unwilling representative. <P> "It's a wonder," Mrs. Welland remarked, "that they didn't choose the Cup Race day! Do you remember, two years ago, their giving a party for -a black man on the day of Julia Mingott's the dansant? Luckily this +a black man on the day of Julia Mingott's <i>thé dansant</i>? Luckily this time there's nothing else going on that I know of—for of course some of us will have to go." </P> @@ -9598,7 +9582,7 @@ Archer's mind on the very day when the Emerson Sillerton invitation had first been mentioned; but he had kept it to himself as if there were something clandestine in the plan, and discovery might prevent its execution. He had, however, taken the precaution to engage in advance -a runabout with a pair of old livery-stable trotters that could still +a run-about with a pair of old livery-stable trotters that could still do their eighteen miles on level roads; and at two o'clock, hastily deserting the luncheon-table, he sprang into the light carriage and drove off. @@ -9738,7 +9722,7 @@ the house seemed empty—so I sat down to wait." <P> Miss Blenker, shaking off the fumes of sleep, looked at him with -increasing interest. "The house IS empty. Mother's not here, or the +increasing interest. "The house <i>is</i> empty. Mother's not here, or the Marchioness—or anybody but me." Her glance became faintly reproachful. "Didn't you know that Professor and Mrs. Sillerton are giving a garden-party for mother and all of us this afternoon? It was @@ -9770,10 +9754,10 @@ We Blenkers are all like that ... real Bohemians!" Recovering the sunshade with a powerful hand she unfurled it and suspended its rosy dome above her head. "Yes, Ellen was called away yesterday: she lets us call her Ellen, you know. A telegram came from Boston: she said she -might be gone for two days. I do LOVE the way she does her hair, don't +might be gone for two days. I do <i>love</i> the way she does her hair, don't you?" Miss Blenker rambled on. </P> - +8 <P> Archer continued to stare through her as though she had been transparent. All he saw was the trumpery parasol that arched its @@ -9827,8 +9811,8 @@ gate and waving the pink parasol. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap23"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap23"></A> +<H3> XXIII. </H3> @@ -10044,7 +10028,7 @@ He paused again, beating about the question he felt he must put. </P> <P> -She stared, and then burst into a laugh. "Meet him—my husband? HERE? +She stared, and then burst into a laugh. "Meet him—my husband? <i>Here</i>? At this season he's always at Cowes or Baden." </P> @@ -10359,8 +10343,8 @@ Olenska, without offering any objection, waited while he went in search of it. The room opened on a long wooden verandah, with the sea coming in at the windows. It was bare and cool, with a table covered with a coarse checkered cloth and adorned by a bottle of pickles and a -blueberry pie under a cage. No more guileless-looking cabinet -particulier ever offered its shelter to a clandestine couple: Archer +blueberry pie under a cage. No more guileless-looking <i>cabinet +particulier</i> ever offered its shelter to a clandestine couple: Archer fancied he saw the sense of its reassurance in the faintly amused smile with which Madame Olenska sat down opposite to him. A woman who had run away from her husband—and reputedly with another man—was likely @@ -10373,8 +10357,8 @@ thing for two old friends who had so much to say to each other.... <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap24"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap24"></A> +<H3> XXIV. </H3> @@ -10509,7 +10493,7 @@ through!" </P> <P> -She lowered her voice. "IS it a bad business—for May?" +She lowered her voice. "<i>is</i> it a bad business—for May?" </P> <P> @@ -10543,7 +10527,7 @@ her. </P> <P> -Her eyes were clinging to him desperately. "Oh, IS there no reason?" +Her eyes were clinging to him desperately. "Oh, <i>is</i> there no reason?" </P> <P> @@ -10600,7 +10584,7 @@ apart. <P> "What's the use—when you will go back?" he broke out, a great hopeless -HOW ON EARTH CAN I KEEP YOU? crying out to her beneath his words. +<i>How on earth can I keep you?</i> crying out to her beneath his words. </P> <P> @@ -10647,7 +10631,7 @@ She nodded. </P> <P> -"Well; it IS all, isn't it?" +"Well; it <i>is</i> all, isn't it?" </P> <P> @@ -10688,8 +10672,8 @@ loomed in a line of haze. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap25"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap25"></A> +<H3> XXV. </H3> @@ -10756,13 +10740,13 @@ English: "Surely, Monsieur, we met in London?" <P> "Ah, to be sure: in London!" Archer grasped his hand with curiosity -and sympathy. "So you DID get here, after all?" he exclaimed, casting +and sympathy. "So you <i>did</i> get here, after all?" he exclaimed, casting a wondering eye on the astute and haggard little countenance of young Carfry's French tutor. </P> <P> -"Oh, I got here—yes," M. Riviere smiled with drawn lips. "But not for +"Oh, I got here—yes," M. Rivière smiled with drawn lips. "But not for long; I return the day after tomorrow." He stood grasping his light valise in one neatly gloved hand, and gazing anxiously, perplexedly, almost appealingly, into Archer's face. @@ -10780,7 +10764,7 @@ decent restaurant in that quarter." </P> <P> -M. Riviere was visibly touched and surprised. "You're too kind. But I +M. Rivière was visibly touched and surprised. "You're too kind. But I was only going to ask if you would tell me how to reach some sort of conveyance. There are no porters, and no one here seems to listen—" </P> @@ -10806,7 +10790,7 @@ Archer walked away. </P> <P> -Punctually at the hour M. Riviere appeared, shaved, smoothed-out, but +Punctually at the hour M. Rivière appeared, shaved, smoothed-out, but still unmistakably drawn and serious. Archer was alone in his office, and the young man, before accepting the seat he proffered, began abruptly: "I believe I saw you, sir, yesterday in Boston." @@ -10819,7 +10803,7 @@ illuminating in his visitor's insistent gaze. </P> <P> -"It is extraordinary, very extraordinary," M. Riviere continued, "that +"It is extraordinary, very extraordinary," M. Rivière continued, "that we should have met in the circumstances in which I find myself." </P> @@ -10829,7 +10813,7 @@ needed money. </P> <P> -M. Riviere continued to study him with tentative eyes. "I have come, +M. Rivière continued to study him with tentative eyes. "I have come, not to look for employment, as I spoke of doing when we last met, but on a special mission—" </P> @@ -10837,7 +10821,7 @@ on a special mission—" <P> "Ah—!" Archer exclaimed. In a flash the two meetings had connected themselves in his mind. He paused to take in the situation thus -suddenly lighted up for him, and M. Riviere also remained silent, as if +suddenly lighted up for him, and M. Rivière also remained silent, as if aware that what he had said was enough. </P> @@ -10848,7 +10832,7 @@ aware that what he had said was enough. <P> The young Frenchman, opening his palms, raised them slightly, and the two men continued to look at each other across the office-desk till -Archer roused himself to say: "Do sit down"; whereupon M. Riviere +Archer roused himself to say: "Do sit down"; whereupon M. Rivière bowed, took a distant chair, and again waited. </P> @@ -10858,7 +10842,7 @@ finally asked. </P> <P> -M. Riviere bent his head. "Not in my own behalf: on that score I—I +M. Rivière bent his head. "Not in my own behalf: on that score I—I have fully dealt with myself. I should like—if I may—to speak to you about the Countess Olenska." </P> @@ -10874,7 +10858,7 @@ had been caught by a bent-back branch in a thicket. </P> <P> -M. Riviere met the question sturdily. "Well—I might say HERS, if it +M. Rivière met the question sturdily. "Well—I might say <i>hers</i>, if it did not sound like a liberty. Shall I say instead: on behalf of abstract justice?" </P> @@ -10885,13 +10869,13 @@ Olenski's messenger?" </P> <P> -He saw his blush more darkly reflected in M. Riviere's sallow -countenance. "Not to YOU, Monsieur. If I come to you, it is on quite +He saw his blush more darkly reflected in M. Rivière's sallow +countenance. "Not to <i>you</i>, Monsieur. If I come to you, it is on quite other grounds." </P> <P> -"What right have you, in the circumstances, to BE on any other ground?" +"What right have you, in the circumstances, to <i>be</i> on any other ground?" Archer retorted. "If you're an emissary you're an emissary." </P> @@ -10905,7 +10889,7 @@ Olenska goes, it has failed." </P> <P> -"No: but you can help—" M. Riviere paused, turned his hat about in +"No: but you can help—" M. Rivière paused, turned his hat about in his still carefully gloved hands, looked into its lining and then back at Archer's face. "You can help, Monsieur, I am convinced, to make it equally a failure with her family." @@ -10919,7 +10903,7 @@ risen, was still an inch or two below the line of Archer's eyes. </P> <P> -M. Riviere paled to his normal hue: paler than that his complexion +M. Rivière paled to his normal hue: paler than that his complexion could hardly turn. </P> @@ -10931,7 +10915,7 @@ the rest of her family?" </P> <P> -The change of expression in M. Riviere's face was for a time his only +The change of expression in M. Rivière's face was for a time his only answer. His look passed from timidity to absolute distress: for a young man of his usually resourceful mien it would have been difficult to appear more disarmed and defenceless. "Oh, Monsieur—" @@ -10945,7 +10929,7 @@ were sent over with." </P> <P> -M. Riviere took this onslaught with a disconcerting humility. "The +M. Rivière took this onslaught with a disconcerting humility. "The arguments I want to present to you, Monsieur, are my own and not those I was sent over with." </P> @@ -10955,7 +10939,7 @@ I was sent over with." </P> <P> -M. Riviere again looked into his hat, as if considering whether these +M. Rivière again looked into his hat, as if considering whether these last words were not a sufficiently broad hint to put it on and be gone. Then he spoke with sudden decision. "Monsieur—will you tell me one thing? Is it my right to be here that you question? Or do you perhaps @@ -10964,7 +10948,7 @@ believe the whole matter to be already closed?" <P> His quiet insistence made Archer feel the clumsiness of his own -bluster. M. Riviere had succeeded in imposing himself: Archer, +bluster. M. Rivière had succeeded in imposing himself: Archer, reddening slightly, dropped into his chair again, and signed to the young man to be seated. </P> @@ -10974,7 +10958,7 @@ young man to be seated. </P> <P> -M. Riviere gazed back at him with anguish. "You do, then, agree with +M. Rivière gazed back at him with anguish. "You do, then, agree with the rest of the family that, in face of the new proposals I have brought, it is hardly possible for Madame Olenska not to return to her husband?" @@ -11037,8 +11021,8 @@ last proposals?" <P> It was on Archer's lips to exclaim that whatever he knew or did not -know was no concern of M. Riviere's; but something in the humble and -yet courageous tenacity of M. Riviere's gaze made him reject this +know was no concern of M. Rivière's; but something in the humble and +yet courageous tenacity of M. Rivière's gaze made him reject this conclusion, and he met the young man's question with another. "What is your object in speaking to me of this?" </P> @@ -11046,7 +11030,7 @@ your object in speaking to me of this?" <P> He had not to wait a moment for the answer. "To beg you, Monsieur—to beg you with all the force I'm capable of—not to let her go back.—Oh, -don't let her!" M. Riviere exclaimed. +don't let her!" M. Rivière exclaimed. </P> <P> @@ -11063,7 +11047,7 @@ Countess Olenska?" </P> <P> -M. Riviere reddened, but his eyes did not falter. "No, Monsieur: I +M. Rivière reddened, but his eyes did not falter. "No, Monsieur: I accepted my mission in good faith. I really believed—for reasons I need not trouble you with—that it would be better for Madame Olenska to recover her situation, her fortune, the social consideration that @@ -11107,7 +11091,7 @@ changed my mind, that I came to see things differently." </P> <P> -"Simply seeing the change in HER," M. Riviere replied. +"Simply seeing the change in <i>her</i>," M. Rivière replied. </P> <P> @@ -11133,16 +11117,16 @@ rule seemed as strange as anything that the imagination could invent. </P> <P> -"Ah, Monsieur, if I could tell you!" M. Riviere paused. "Tenez—the +"Ah, Monsieur, if I could tell you!" M. Rivière paused. "<i>Tenez</i>—the discovery, I suppose, of what I'd never thought of before: that she's -an American. And that if you're an American of HER kind—of your +an American. And that if you're an American of <i>her</i> kind—of your kind—things that are accepted in certain other societies, or at least put up with as part of a general convenient give-and-take—become unthinkable, simply unthinkable. If Madame Olenska's relations understood what these things were, their opposition to her returning would no doubt be as unconditional as her own; but they seem to regard her husband's wish to have her back as proof of an irresistible longing -for domestic life." M. Riviere paused, and then added: "Whereas it's +for domestic life." M. Rivière paused, and then added: "Whereas it's far from being as simple as that." </P> @@ -11150,7 +11134,7 @@ far from being as simple as that." Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it. For a second or two he could not trust himself to speak. During this interval he heard M. -Riviere's chair pushed back, and was aware that the young man had +Rivière's chair pushed back, and was aware that the young man had risen. When he glanced up again he saw that his visitor was as moved as himself. </P> @@ -11161,7 +11145,7 @@ as himself. <P> "There's nothing to thank me for, Monsieur: it is I, rather—" M. -Riviere broke off, as if speech for him too were difficult. "I should +Rivière broke off, as if speech for him too were difficult. "I should like, though," he continued in a firmer voice, "to add one thing. You asked me if I was in Count Olenski's employ. I am at this moment: I returned to him, a few months ago, for reasons of private necessity @@ -11173,7 +11157,7 @@ all, Monsieur." </P> <P> -M. Riviere bowed and drew back a step. +M. Rivière bowed and drew back a step. </P> <P> @@ -11182,8 +11166,8 @@ M. Riviere bowed and drew back a step. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap26"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap26"></A> +<H3> XXVI. </H3> @@ -11241,7 +11225,7 @@ herself part of a community that was trending. </P> <P> -"There's no doubt that Dr. Ashmore is right: there IS a marked trend," +"There's no doubt that Dr. Ashmore is right: there <i>is</i> a marked trend," she said, as if it were something visible and measurable, like a crack in a house. </P> @@ -11268,7 +11252,7 @@ over her Paris dresses before she wears them." </P> <P> -"Ah, Jane Merry is one of US," said Mrs. Archer sighing, as if it were +"Ah, Jane Merry is one of <i>us</i>," said Mrs. Archer sighing, as if it were not such an enviable thing to be in an age when ladies were beginning to flaunt abroad their Paris dresses as soon as they were out of the Custom House, instead of letting them mellow under lock and key, in the @@ -11363,16 +11347,16 @@ her champagne was transmuted Shoe-Polish. <P> "I know, dear, I know," Mrs. Archer sighed. "Such things have to be, I -suppose, as long as AMUSEMENT is what people go out for; but I've never +suppose, as long as <i>amusement</i> is what people go out for; but I've never quite forgiven your cousin Madame Olenska for being the first person to countenance Mrs. Struthers." </P> <P> A sudden blush rose to young Mrs. Archer's face; it surprised her -husband as much as the other guests about the table. "Oh, ELLEN—" she +husband as much as the other guests about the table. "Oh, <i>Ellen</i>—" she murmured, much in the same accusing and yet deprecating tone in which -her parents might have said: "Oh, THE BLENKERS—." +her parents might have said: "Oh, <i>the Blenkers</i>—." </P> <P> @@ -11568,8 +11552,8 @@ herself—that the family reduced Countess Olenska's allowance considerably when she definitely refused to go back to her husband; and as, by this refusal, she also forfeits the money settled on her when she married—which Olenski was ready to make over to her if she -returned—why, what the devil do YOU mean, my dear boy, by asking me -what I mean?" Mr. Jackson good-humouredly retorted. +returned—why, what the devil do <i>you</i> mean, my dear boy, by asking me +what <i>I</i> mean?" Mr. Jackson good-humouredly retorted. </P> <P> @@ -11592,14 +11576,14 @@ out contemptuously. </P> <P> -"Ah—DID he?" snapped the other, as if this were exactly the fact he +"Ah—<i>did</i> he?" snapped the other, as if this were exactly the fact he had been laying a trap for. He still sat sideways from the fire, so that his hard old gaze held Archer's face as if in a spring of steel. </P> <P> "Well, well: it's a pity she didn't go back before Beaufort's cropper," -he repeated. "If she goes NOW, and if he fails, it will only confirm +he repeated. "If she goes <i>now</i>, and if he fails, it will only confirm the general impression: which isn't by any means peculiar to Lefferts, by the way." </P> @@ -11748,8 +11732,8 @@ housekeeping air. On the threshold she turned and paused for his kiss. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap27"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap27"></A> +<H3> XXVII. </H3> @@ -11797,7 +11781,7 @@ had reassured his depositors, and heavy payments had poured into the bank till the previous evening, when disturbing reports again began to predominate. In consequence, a run on the bank had begun, and its doors were likely to close before the day was over. The ugliest things -were being said of Beaufort's dastardly manoeuvre, and his failure +were being said of Beaufort's dastardly manœuvre, and his failure promised to be one of the most discreditable in the history of Wall Street. </P> @@ -11806,7 +11790,7 @@ Street. The extent of the calamity left Mr. Letterblair white and incapacitated. "I've seen bad things in my time; but nothing as bad as this. Everybody we know will be hit, one way or another. And what -will be done about Mrs. Beaufort? What CAN be done about her? I pity +will be done about Mrs. Beaufort? What <i>can</i> be done about her? I pity Mrs. Manson Mingott as much as anybody: coming at her age, there's no knowing what effect this affair may have on her. She always believed in Beaufort—she made a friend of him! And there's the whole Dallas @@ -11853,7 +11837,7 @@ second time, took a more hopeful view, and Mrs. Mingott's dauntless determination to live and get well was already having an effect on her family. May led Archer into the old lady's sitting-room, where the sliding doors opening into the bedroom had been drawn shut, and the -heavy yellow damask portieres dropped over them; and here Mrs. Welland +heavy yellow damask portières dropped over them; and here Mrs. Welland communicated to him in horrified undertones the details of the catastrophe. It appeared that the evening before something dreadful and mysterious had happened. At about eight o'clock, just after Mrs. @@ -11911,7 +11895,7 @@ knowing these horrors?" the poor lady wailed. </P> <P> -"After all, Mamma, he won't have SEEN them," her daughter suggested; +"After all, Mamma, he won't have <i>seen</i> them," her daughter suggested; and Mrs. Welland sighed: "Ah, no; thank heaven he's safe in bed. And Dr. Bencomb has promised to keep him there till poor Mamma is better, and Regina has been got away somewhere." @@ -11930,7 +11914,7 @@ Beaufort's dishonour and of his wife's unjustifiable action. <P> Mrs. Lovell Mingott, who had been in another room writing notes, -presently reappeared, and added her voice to the discussion. In THEIR +presently reappeared, and added her voice to the discussion. In <i>their</i> day, the elder ladies agreed, the wife of a man who had done anything disgraceful in business had only one idea: to efface herself, to disappear with him. "There was the case of poor Grandmamma Spicer; @@ -11960,7 +11944,7 @@ financial probity as the first law of a gentleman's code was too deeply ingrained in him for sentimental considerations to weaken it. An adventurer like Lemuel Struthers might build up the millions of his Shoe Polish on any number of shady dealings; but unblemished honesty -was the noblesse oblige of old financial New York. Nor did Mrs. +was the <i>noblesse oblige</i> of old financial New York. Nor did Mrs. Beaufort's fate greatly move Archer. He felt, no doubt, more sorry for her than her indignant relatives; but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be @@ -12049,13 +12033,13 @@ telegraph office. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap28"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap28"></A> +<H3> XXVIII. </H3> <P> -"Ol-ol—howjer spell it, anyhow?" asked the tart young lady to whom +"Ol—ol—howjer spell it, anyhow?" asked the tart young lady to whom Archer had pushed his wife's telegram across the brass ledge of the Western Union office. </P> @@ -12085,7 +12069,7 @@ Archer nodded, and pushed his telegram under the lattice. <P> "Very bad, eh?" Lefferts continued. "Wiring to the family, I suppose. -I gather it IS bad, if you're including Countess Olenska." +I gather it <i>is</i> bad, if you're including Countess Olenska." </P> <P> @@ -12139,7 +12123,7 @@ object of her nocturnal visit to Mrs. Manson Mingott had become known—her cynicism was held to exceed his; and she had not the excuse—nor her detractors the satisfaction—of pleading that she was "a foreigner." It was some comfort (to those whose securities were not -in jeopardy) to be able to remind themselves that Beaufort WAS; but, +in jeopardy) to be able to remind themselves that Beaufort <i>was</i>; but, after all, if a Dallas of South Carolina took his view of the case, and glibly talked of his soon being "on his feet again," the argument lost its edge, and there was nothing to do but to accept this awful evidence @@ -12168,7 +12152,7 @@ the world her family meant by making such a fuss about her health. </P> <P> -"If people of my age WILL eat chicken-salad in the evening what are +"If people of my age <i>will</i> eat chicken-salad in the evening what are they to expect?" she enquired; and, the doctor having opportunely modified her dietary, the stroke was transformed into an attack of indigestion. But in spite of her firm tone old Catherine did not @@ -12281,7 +12265,7 @@ there." His heart was beating excitedly as he spoke. <P> Mrs. Welland heaved a sigh of gratitude, and May, who had moved away to the window, turned to shed on him a beam of approval. "So you see, -Mamma, everything WILL be settled twenty-four hours in advance," she +Mamma, everything <i>will</i> be settled twenty-four hours in advance," she said, stooping over to kiss her mother's troubled forehead. </P> @@ -12320,7 +12304,7 @@ this morning." </P> <P> -"Then it's NOT postponed?" she continued, with an insistence so unlike +"Then it's <i>not</i> postponed?" she continued, with an insistence so unlike her that he felt the blood rising to his face, as if he were blushing for her unwonted lapse from all the traditional delicacies. </P> @@ -12344,7 +12328,7 @@ than either cared to go. </P> <P> -"Yes; it IS awfully convenient," May brightly agreed, "that you should +"Yes; it <i>is</i> awfully convenient," May brightly agreed, "that you should be able to meet Ellen after all; you saw how much Mamma appreciated your offering to do it." </P> @@ -12364,8 +12348,8 @@ old Catherine's. It's all of two hours—and it may be more." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap29"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap29"></A> +<H3> XXIX. </H3> @@ -12464,8 +12448,8 @@ arrangements—I very nearly crossed you in the train." </P> <P> -"I mean: how shall I explain? I—it's always so. EACH TIME YOU HAPPEN -TO ME ALL OVER AGAIN." +"I mean: how shall I explain? I—it's always so. <i>Each time you happen +to me all over again.</i>" </P> <P> @@ -12515,18 +12499,18 @@ husband's secretary came to see me the day after we met in Boston." </P> <P> -In his brief letter to her he had made no allusion to M. Riviere's +In his brief letter to her he had made no allusion to M. Rivière's visit, and his intention had been to bury the incident in his bosom. But her reminder that they were in his wife's carriage provoked him to an impulse of retaliation. He would see if she liked his reference to -Riviere any better than he liked hers to May! As on certain other +Rivière any better than he liked hers to May! As on certain other occasions when he had expected to shake her out of her usual composure, she betrayed no sign of surprise: and at once he concluded: "He writes to her, then." </P> <P> -"M. Riviere went to see you?" +"M. Rivière went to see you?" </P> <P> @@ -12556,7 +12540,7 @@ you; that he'd met you in England I think." <P> "I wanted to ask it after I saw him, but I couldn't put it in a letter. -It was Riviere who helped you to get away—when you left your husband?" +It was Rivière who helped you to get away—when you left your husband?" </P> <P> @@ -12721,7 +12705,7 @@ phrase she had used a little while before. </P> <P> -"Yes, the Gorgon HAS dried your tears," he said. +"Yes, the Gorgon <i>has</i> dried your tears," he said. </P> <P> @@ -12743,7 +12727,7 @@ trotter. Archer choked with the sense of wasted minutes and vain words. </P> <P> -"For US? But there's no US in that sense! We're near each other only +"For <i>us</i>? But there's no <i>us</i> in that sense! We're near each other only if we stay far from each other. Then we can be ourselves. Otherwise we're only Newland Archer, the husband of Ellen Olenska's cousin, and Ellen Olenska, the cousin of Newland Archer's wife, trying to be happy @@ -12796,8 +12780,8 @@ Fifth Avenue to his own house. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap30"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap30"></A> +<H3> XXX. </H3> @@ -12960,13 +12944,13 @@ her say: "Newland! Do shut the window. You'll catch your death." <P> He pulled the sash down and turned back. "Catch my death!" he echoed; -and he felt like adding: "But I've caught it already. I AM dead—I've +and he felt like adding: "But I've caught it already. I <i>am</i> dead—I've been dead for months and months." </P> <P> And suddenly the play of the word flashed up a wild suggestion. What -if it were SHE who was dead! If she were going to die—to die +if it were <i>she</i> who was dead! If she were going to die—to die soon—and leave him free! The sensation of standing there, in that warm familiar room, and looking at her, and wishing her dead, was so strange, so fascinating and overmastering, that its enormity did not @@ -13010,7 +12994,7 @@ over her work: "I shall never worry if you're happy." </P> <P> -"In THIS weather?" she remonstrated; and with a sigh he buried his head +"In <i>this</i> weather?" she remonstrated; and with a sigh he buried his head in his book. </P> @@ -13250,7 +13234,7 @@ and yet all my family want me to go back to him.' Well, that floored me, and I let her go; and finally one day she said it was raining too hard to go out on foot, and she wanted me to lend her my carriage. 'What for?' I asked her; and she said: 'To go and see cousin -Regina'—COUSIN! Now, my dear, I looked out of the window, and saw it +Regina'—<i>cousin</i>! Now, my dear, I looked out of the window, and saw it wasn't raining a drop; but I understood her, and I let her have the carriage.... After all, Regina's a brave woman, and so is she; and I've always liked courage above everything." @@ -13270,8 +13254,8 @@ Granny's love; but you'd better not say anything about our talk." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap31"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap31"></A> +<H3> XXXI. </H3> @@ -13628,7 +13612,7 @@ She looked down at her muff, and he saw her hands stir in it uneasily. </P> <P> -"You WERE afraid? You knew—?" +"You <i>were</i> afraid? You knew—?" </P> <P> @@ -13979,8 +13963,8 @@ tremble in his arms. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap32"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap32"></A> +<H3> XXXII. </H3> @@ -14155,7 +14139,7 @@ he had looked at, two years previously, on the night of his first meeting with Ellen Olenska. He had half-expected her to appear again in old Mrs. Mingott's box, but it remained empty; and he sat motionless, his eyes fastened on it, till suddenly Madame Nilsson's -pure soprano broke out into "M'ama, non m'ama ..." +pure soprano broke out into "<i>M'ama, non m'ama ...</i>" </P> <P> @@ -14219,7 +14203,7 @@ Mrs. van der Luyden's box as if it had been a gate into the unknown. </P> <P> -"M'ama!" thrilled out the triumphant Marguerite; and the occupants of +"<i>M'ama</i>!" thrilled out the triumphant Marguerite; and the occupants of the box looked up in surprise at Archer's entrance. He had already broken one of the rules of his world, which forbade the entering of a box during a solo. @@ -14495,8 +14479,8 @@ room. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap33"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap33"></A> +<H3> XXXIII. </H3> @@ -14757,7 +14741,7 @@ setting of immaculate tiles. The tall lamps were all lit, and Mr. van der Luyden's orchids had been conspicuously disposed in various receptacles of modern porcelain and knobby silver. Mrs. Newland Archer's drawing-room was generally -thought a great success. A gilt bamboo jardiniere, in which the +thought a great success. A gilt bamboo <i>jardinière</i>, in which the primulas and cinerarias were punctually renewed, blocked the access to the bay window (where the old-fashioned would have preferred a bronze reduction of the Venus of Milo); the sofas and arm-chairs of pale @@ -14869,7 +14853,7 @@ prisoner in the centre of an armed camp. He looked about the table, and guessed at the inexorableness of his captors from the tone in which, over the asparagus from Florida, they were dealing with Beaufort and his wife. "It's to show me," he thought, "what would happen to -ME—" and a deathly sense of the superiority of implication and analogy +<i>me</i>—" and a deathly sense of the superiority of implication and analogy over direct action, and of silence over rash words, closed in on him like the doors of the family vault. </P> @@ -15110,7 +15094,7 @@ brick! Good-night." </P> <P> -"It DID go off beautifully, didn't it?" May questioned from the +"It <i>did</i> go off beautifully, didn't it?" May questioned from the threshold of the library. </P> @@ -15243,7 +15227,7 @@ me." </P> <P> -He felt that his wife was watching him intently. "Did you MIND my +He felt that his wife was watching him intently. "Did you <i>mind</i> my telling her first, Newland?" </P> @@ -15261,8 +15245,8 @@ her blue eyes wet with victory. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap34"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap34"></A> +<H3> XXXIV. </H3> @@ -15325,7 +15309,7 @@ rising New York architect. The young men nowadays were emancipating themselves from the law and business and taking up all sorts of new things. If they were not absorbed in state politics or municipal reform, the chances were that -they were going in for Central American archaeology, for architecture +they were going in for Central American archæology, for architecture or landscape-engineering; taking a keen and learned interest in the prerevolutionary buildings of their own country, studying and adapting Georgian types, and protesting at the meaningless use of the word @@ -15352,7 +15336,7 @@ irresistible. </P> <P> -Archer, as he looked back, was not sure that men like himself WERE what +Archer, as he looked back, was not sure that men like himself <i>were</i> what his country needed, at least in the active service to which Theodore Roosevelt had pointed; in fact, there was reason to think it did not, for after a year in the State Assembly he had not been re-elected, and @@ -15386,7 +15370,7 @@ a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first -prize in a lottery. There were a hundred million tickets in HIS +prize in a lottery. There were a hundred million tickets in <i>his</i> lottery, and there was only one prize; the chances had been too decidedly against him. When he thought of Ellen Olenska it was abstractly, serenely, as one might think of some imaginary beloved in a @@ -15602,7 +15586,7 @@ announced. </P> <P> -Nothing could more dearly give the measure of the distance that the +Nothing could more clearly give the measure of the distance that the world had travelled. People nowadays were too busy—busy with reforms and "movements," with fads and fetishes and frivolities—to bother much about their neighbours. And of what account was anybody's past, in the @@ -15637,7 +15621,7 @@ certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?" <P> It was the day after their arrival in Paris, and the spring sunshine held Archer in his open window, above the wide silvery prospect of the -Place Vendome. One of the things he had stipulated—almost the only +Place Vendôme. One of the things he had stipulated—almost the only one—when he had agreed to come abroad with Dallas, was that, in Paris, he shouldn't be made to go to one of the newfangled "palaces." </P> @@ -15720,7 +15704,7 @@ lovely?" <P> "Ah—there you have it! That's what it always comes to, doesn't it? -When she comes, SHE'S DIFFERENT—and one doesn't know why. It's +When she comes, <i>she's different</i>—and one doesn't know why. It's exactly what I feel about Fanny." </P> @@ -15802,7 +15786,7 @@ wife moved him indescribably. Dallas, for all his affectionate insight, would not have understood that. To the boy, no doubt, the episode was only a pathetic instance of vain frustration, of wasted forces. But was it really no more? For a long time Archer sat on a -bench in the Champs Elysees and wondered, while the stream of life +bench in the Champs Élysées and wondered, while the stream of life rolled by.... </P> @@ -15888,7 +15872,7 @@ nothing like it, is there?" </P> <P> -Archer had not seen M. Riviere, or heard of him, for nearly thirty +Archer had not seen M. Rivière, or heard of him, for nearly thirty years; and that fact gave the measure of his ignorance of Madame Olenska's existence. More than half a lifetime divided them, and she had spent the long interval among people he did not know, in a society @@ -15930,7 +15914,7 @@ still lowered, as though the sun had just left it. <P> "I wonder which floor—?" Dallas conjectured; and moving toward the -porte-cochere he put his head into the porter's lodge, and came back to +<i>porte-cochère</i> he put his head into the porter's lodge, and came back to say: "The fifth. It must be the one with the awnings." </P> @@ -16043,8 +16027,8 @@ up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel. <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="note"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="note"></A> +<H3> A Note on the Text </H3> @@ -16064,386 +16048,6 @@ obviously authorial. <BR><BR><BR><BR> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AGE OF INNOCENCE *** - -***** This file should be named 541-h.htm or 541-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - https://www.gutenberg.org/5/4/541/ - -Produced by Judith Boss and Charles Keller. 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