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diff --git a/65195-h/65195-h.htm b/65195-h/65195-h.htm index 692bd25..d1b0920 100644 --- a/65195-h/65195-h.htm +++ b/65195-h/65195-h.htm @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ body { font-size: .7em; } +h1.nobreak, h2.nobreak {page-break-before: avoid;} table {margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 30em;} @@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ hr.chap {width: 65%; margin-left: 17.5%; margin-right: 17.5%;} hr.r5 {width: 5%; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 47.5%; margin-right: 47.5%;} div.chapter {page-break-before: always;} -h2.nobreak {page-break-before: avoid;} +h1.nobreak, h2.nobreak {page-break-before: avoid;} li {margin-bottom: 1em;} @@ -105,11 +106,13 @@ img { .x-ebookmaker table {width: 98%;} .figcenter { - margin-top: 2em; + margin: auto; text-align: center; page-break-inside: avoid; max-width: 100%; } +.width500 {max-width: 500px;} +.width10 {max-width: 10px; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em;} /* Page numbers */ .pagenum {position: absolute; right: 2%; text-indent: 0em; @@ -134,7 +137,8 @@ img { color: black; padding:0.5em; margin-bottom:5em; - font-family:sans-serif, serif; } + margin-left:auto; margin-right: auto; + font-family:sans-serif, serif; max-width: 30em; } /* Poetry indents */ .poetry .indent0 {text-indent: -3em;} @@ -148,17 +152,16 @@ ins {text-decoration: none;} <body> <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 65195 ***</div> -<div class="figcenter"> -<img id="coverpage" src="images/cover.jpg" width="50%" alt="Cover" /> + +<div class="figcenter width500"> +<img id="coverpage" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Cover" /> </div> -<div class="chapter"> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -</div> -<h1>QUICKSANDS</h1> +<h1 class="nobreak">QUICKSANDS</h1> @@ -173,12 +176,12 @@ ins {text-decoration: none;} <span class="large">B. M. CROKER</span><br /> Author of “The Cat’s Paw,” etc.</p> -<div class="figcenter"> -<img id="title-page" src="images/i_title.jpg" width="10" alt="" /> +<div class="figcenter width10"> +<img id="title-page" src="images/i_title.jpg" alt="" /> </div> <div class="figcenter"> -<span class="center p2 font-size2">CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD</span><br /> +<span class="center p2">CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD</span><br /> <span class="small">London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne</span> </div> @@ -658,7 +661,7 @@ your two gees; fine weight-carriers,” walking over to his side as he spoke—horses always attracted Ronnie.</p> -<p>“Aye, they are good ‘uns,” assented the farmer, +<p>“Aye, they are good ’uns,” assented the farmer, “and rarely bred. My girl and I have been giving them a bit of a gallop in the fields yonder now the crops are in, getting them fit for the cub-hunting. @@ -809,10 +812,11 @@ rats. Well, good-bye, old bridge,” he went on, slapping the grey stone parapet as he spoke, “I don’t expect we shall ever meet again, but I jolly well hope those visions will come true!”</p> + <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_2">CHAPTER II<br /> <span>BEKE</span></h2> @@ -1169,7 +1173,7 @@ manager?”</p> <p>“My dear, crazy child, if the colonel were to hear you he would have fits. He bars married officers -and——-”</p> +and——”</p> <p>“Is married himself,” I interrupted impatiently.</p> @@ -1231,7 +1235,7 @@ of India.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_3">CHAPTER III<br /> <span>A MEETING ON THE MARSHES</span></h2> @@ -1472,7 +1476,7 @@ thoughts and the rector’s short, crisp sermon.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_4">CHAPTER IV<br /> <span>A DANCE AT “THE PLOUGH”</span></h2> @@ -1872,7 +1876,7 @@ head like champagne.</p> <p>“This is a queer old inn,” he went on. “The landlady told me that ages ago all the county came here, and in winter had routs in this room. I should -say it had <a name="routs" id="routs"></a><ins title="Original has ‘roots’">routs</ins> within the last week,” and he +say it had roots within the last week,” and he sniffed fastidiously.</p> <p>At this moment Sam, breathless from his exertions, @@ -1985,7 +1989,7 @@ be compelled to <i>emigrate</i>!”</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_5">CHAPTER V<br /> <span>THE GREAT INVASION</span></h2> @@ -2591,7 +2595,7 @@ fell on Beke.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[61]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[61]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_6">CHAPTER VI<br /> <span>IN AUNT MINA’S SHOES</span></h2> @@ -3287,7 +3291,7 @@ there’d be wigs on the green!”</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[79]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[79]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_7">CHAPTER VII<br /> <span>THE FAMILY SKELETON</span></h2> @@ -3485,7 +3489,7 @@ was all!</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[85]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[85]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_8">CHAPTER VIII<br /> <span>“AN OPEN DOOR”</span></h2> @@ -4019,7 +4023,7 @@ to India!</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_100">[100]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_100">[100]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_9">CHAPTER IX<br /> <span>OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN</span></h2> @@ -4267,7 +4271,7 @@ forth by my aunt by marriage!”</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[107]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[107]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_10">CHAPTER X<br /> <span>THE “ASPHODEL”</span></h2> @@ -4686,7 +4690,7 @@ they were discussing <i>me</i>!</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_119">[119]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_119">[119]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_11">CHAPTER XI<br /> <span>A HILL STATION</span></h2> @@ -5299,7 +5303,7 @@ the whole station. Mother has written to her. There will be no theatricals, the notice has been posted up on the board this morning. Of course she<span class="pagenum" id="Page_136">[136]</span> must have got hold of you under false pretences. -Mother says you are to come to us at once. W. +Mother says you are to come to us at once. <a id="w"></a><ins title="Original has 'W.'">We</ins> will send down for your things.”</p> <p>“It’s all very dreadful,” I said. “I feel completely @@ -5339,7 +5343,7 @@ place. L. J. Bowen, Sec. Dramatic Society.”</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_137">[137]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_137">[137]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_12">CHAPTER XII<br /> <span>THE NOTORIOUS MRS. DE LACY</span></h2> @@ -5717,7 +5721,7 @@ out of the room I was crying too.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_148">[148]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_148">[148]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_13">CHAPTER XIII<br /> <span>A FRESH START</span></h2> @@ -6008,7 +6012,7 @@ his pony, and was gone.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_157">[157]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_157">[157]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_14">CHAPTER XIV<br /> <span>THE CLUB</span></h2> @@ -6020,7 +6024,7 @@ his pony, and was gone.</p> <p><span class="smcap">The</span> station club, “the very heart of the community,” as described by Mrs. Soames, lay about two miles from our lines. As we drove down there behind our -spanking Australian cabs, my chaperon, who was +spanking Australian cobs, my chaperon, who was a great talker, enlarged upon the subject.</p> <p>“Our club,” she remarked, “is capitally situated @@ -6500,7 +6504,7 @@ Kipper.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_170">[170]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_170">[170]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_15">CHAPTER XV<br /> <span>A RENEWED FRIENDSHIP</span></h2> @@ -6961,7 +6965,7 @@ walk. “You love riding, I can see.”</p> free. One is, as it were, off the road,” and I waved my hand at the enormous stretch of open country.</p> -<p>“That’s so,”he assented. “There are no farmers +<p>“That’s so,” he assented. “There are no farmers to head you off new wheat, but it’s pretty bad going. You have not yet come across any of our big nullahs.” Then turning round, so as almost to look @@ -6978,7 +6982,7 @@ Lingard. Rather the other way I should say; so tell me the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”</p> -<p>“Well then,the real reason——” Here I came to +<p>“Well then, the real reason——” Here I came to a full stop.</p> <p>“Yes, go on please—the <i>real</i> reason.”</p> @@ -7061,7 +7065,7 @@ story must be continued in our next!”</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_185">[185]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_185">[185]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_16">CHAPTER XVI<br /> <span>AN UNWELCOME VISITOR</span></h2> @@ -7404,7 +7408,7 @@ had once expressed it, “completely unhinged.”</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_195">[195]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_195">[195]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_17">CHAPTER XVII<br /> <span>A COMPROMISE</span></h2> @@ -7670,7 +7674,7 @@ a grain of salt.”</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_203">[203]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_203">[203]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_18">CHAPTER XVIII<br /> <span>THE RESIDENCY BALL</span></h2> @@ -8077,7 +8081,7 @@ something to do with racing and that they have a mutual interest in a speculation.”</p> <p>“Ah! My own impression of Balthasar is that -he is a wrong ‘un, a sort of parasite hanging on to +he is a wrong ’un, a sort of parasite hanging on to the Nawabs in the city, and squeezing out money and concessions for his schemes in gold and coal. He has a bad influence over young fellows. Gets @@ -8335,7 +8339,7 @@ he would keep it!</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_221">[221]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_221">[221]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_19">CHAPTER XIX<br /> <span>“YES—OR NO?”</span></h2> @@ -8625,7 +8629,7 @@ enjoyed a thoroughly exhaustive cry.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_229">[229]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_229">[229]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_20">CHAPTER XX<br /> <span>CLOUDS</span></h2> @@ -9092,7 +9096,7 @@ and that he held a revolver in his hand.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_242">[242]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_242">[242]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_21">CHAPTER XXI<br /> <span>RONNIE’S CONFESSION</span></h2> @@ -9493,7 +9497,7 @@ to pass forth.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_253">[253]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_253">[253]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_22">CHAPTER XXII<br /> <span>PUNISHMENT</span></h2> @@ -9951,7 +9955,7 @@ what this portended as well as I did myself.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_266">[266]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_266">[266]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_23">CHAPTER XXIII<br /> <span>A HAVEN</span></h2> @@ -10413,7 +10417,7 @@ pieces, and sank on the ground in a dead faint.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_279">[279]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_279">[279]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_24">CHAPTER XXIV<br /> <span>THE FLIGHT</span></h2> @@ -10743,7 +10747,7 @@ day!</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_288">[288]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_288">[288]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_25">CHAPTER XXV<br /> <span>AT BANGALORE</span></h2> @@ -11015,7 +11019,7 @@ the sun.” And with this adjuration she left me.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_296">[296]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_296">[296]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_26">CHAPTER XXVI<br /> <span>WITHIN THE PRECINCTS</span></h2> @@ -11276,7 +11280,7 @@ couldn’t help it.” And then I leant against the wall and wept. I think this was almost the bitterest moment of my whole life. There was my brother, the image of despair, working out his sentence within those tall -ugly walls, out off from everything he had ever cared +ugly walls, cut off from everything he had ever cared for. I believe my tears somewhat appeased the superintendent.</p> @@ -11550,7 +11554,7 @@ Torrington.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_310">[310]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_310">[310]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_27">CHAPTER XXVII<br /> <span>DARK DAYS</span></h2> @@ -12099,7 +12103,7 @@ warder entered, salaamed, and said:</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_326">[326]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_326">[326]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_28">CHAPTER XXVIII<br /> <span>HYDER ALI’S GARDEN</span></h2> @@ -12398,7 +12402,7 @@ tears of happiness.</p> <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> <div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_335">[335]</span></p> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_335">[335]</span> <h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_29">CHAPTER XXIX<br /> <span>THE ORDER OF RELEASE</span></h2> @@ -12720,28 +12724,27 @@ London, E. C.</span><br /> </p> <div class="chapter"> -<hr class="divider x-ebookmakerdrop" /> +<hr class="x-ebookmaker-drop" /> </div> <div class="transnote"> -<p class="center"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> +<p class="center"><b>Transcriber’s Note:</b></p> -<p class="noi center">Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.</p> +<p>Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.</p> -<p class="noi center">Known changes have been made as follows:</p> +<p>Known changes have been made as follows:</p> <ul> - -<li>Page 41<br /> -roots within the last week <i>changed to</i><br /> -<a href="#routs">routs</a> within the last week</li> +<li>Page 136<br /> +W. will send down for your things <i>changed to</i><br /> +<a href="#w">We</a> will send down for your things</li> <li>Page 253<br /> I usually rode early <i>changed to</i><br /> I usually <a href="#rose">rose</a> early</li> - </ul> </div> <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 65195 ***</div> </body> </html> + |