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diff --git a/55760-0.txt b/55760-0.txt index 6b85ab9..2fdaa88 100644 --- a/55760-0.txt +++ b/55760-0.txt @@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ this formula for her. She will need it.' Suzanne de Freyne shook her head. -You will not be able to leave the gardens alive with it,' she assured +'You will not be able to leave the gardens alive with it,' she assured him. He glanced at her incredulously. Her smooth face was unwrinkled. She @@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@ examined or made copies of what he chose.' 'How do you know this?' he asked incredulously. -'It is quite simple,' she explained. Even the cleverest man in the +'It is quite simple,' she explained. 'Even the cleverest man in the world seems always to forget one thing. Niko forgot that his clothes and fingers, even his breath, have always that peculiar Oriental perfume. What is it like--half almond-blossom, half sandalwood?' @@ -2872,7 +2872,7 @@ to Suzanne's inquiry. 'The doctor has ordered him complete rest.' 'My business,' Suzanne explained, 'is very urgent.' 'So every reporter who has been here to-day has told me,' the man -replied a little wearily. No one has been allowed to see him.' +replied a little wearily. 'No one has been allowed to see him.' 'Is Lady Matravers in?' Suzanne persisted. @@ -4776,7 +4776,7 @@ half-past five.' 'You wonderful person,' she sighed, shaking herself free from the rugs. -They drew up in the archway 01 the hotel and made their way up the +They drew up in the archway of the hotel and made their way up the outside stairs into the old-fashioned coffee-room. She drank tea and toyed with her bread and butter absently. She looked continually out of the window, seawards. @@ -4993,8 +4993,8 @@ some piffling reason. Where have you come from?' 'Holland,' was the brief reply. -'If you are really in a hurry, sir,' Major Elwell intervened politely,' -you are only wasting time by this discussion with your friend. Before +'If you are really in a hurry, sir,' Major Elwell intervened politely, +'you are only wasting time by this discussion with your friend. Before you proceed, you will have to come into the guardroom with me.' 'I'm damned if I do!' Mr. Johnson replied. 'If you lay hands on me, @@ -5574,7 +5574,7 @@ to a broad stone piazza, at the back of Mr. Moreton's mansion in Riverside Drive. It was here that Lavendale received one of the surprises of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Moreton were reclining in low wicker chairs, and between them, a miracle of daintiness in her white -linen costume and plain black hat, was--Suzanne. Lavendale forget his +linen costume and plain black hat, was--Suzanne. Lavendale forgot his manners, forgot the tremendous interest of his visit, forgot everything else in the world. He stood quite still for a moment. Then he strode forward with outstretched hands and a very visible gladness in his face. @@ -6351,7 +6351,7 @@ faith, were sent across the wineglasses to the country whom it was designed to honour. Back in their corner, Lavendale and Suzanne looked on curiously. Once Lavendale drank a little toast with his companion. -'This,' he murmured,' is to our fuller alliance.' +'This,' he murmured, 'is to our fuller alliance.' She drank with him, although she seemed a little puzzled. @@ -7580,16 +7580,4 @@ _Printed in Great Britain by_ Butler & Tanner, _Frome and London_ _Publishers, London, E.C.4_ - - - - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat, by -E. Phillips Oppenheim - *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 55760 *** |