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diff --git a/8203-h/8203-h.htm b/8203-h/8203-h.htm index 3e629a9..5cf75f0 100644 --- a/8203-h/8203-h.htm +++ b/8203-h/8203-h.htm @@ -1,18 +1,12 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> - -<!DOCTYPE html - PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > - -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> - <title> - A Modern Instance, by William Dean Howells - </title> - <style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <title>A Modern Instance | Project Gutenberg</title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> + <style> - body { margin:5%; background:#faebd0; text-align:justify} + body { margin:5%; text-align:justify} P { text-indent: 1em; margin-top: .25em; margin-bottom: .25em; } H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%; } hr { width: 50%; text-align: center;} @@ -33,48 +27,10 @@ </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Modern Instance, by William Dean Howells - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: A Modern Instance - -Author: William Dean Howells - - -Release Date: June, 2005 [EBook #8203] -This file was first posted on July 2, 2003 -Last Updated: February 25, 2018 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MODERN INSTANCE *** - - - - -Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Olaf Voss, David Widger -and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team - - - - - - -</pre> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 8203 ***</div> <div style="height: 8em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h1> A MODERN INSTANCE @@ -83,11 +39,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team <b> By William Dean Howells </b> </h3> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> <p> <b>CONTENTS</b> @@ -225,15 +181,15 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team <a href="#link2H_4_0043"> XLI. </a> </p> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_INTR" id="link2H_INTR"> + <a id="link2H_INTR"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> INTRODUCTION. @@ -421,11 +377,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team undrawn sketches into some one comprehensive and beautiful picture. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> + <a id="link2H_4_0002"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE SEQUENCE OF MR. HOWELLS'S BOOKS. @@ -514,21 +470,21 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team London Films. Travel and Description. 1905. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> + <a id="link2H_4_0003"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A MODERN INSTANCE. </h2> <p> - <a name="link2Hone" id="link2Hone"> + <a id="link2Hone"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> I. @@ -871,7 +827,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team for her to speak; but she had gone the length of her tether in this direction. “Byron says,— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,— 'Tis woman's whole existence.' </pre> @@ -1114,11 +1070,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team glance burning upon her. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> + <a id="link2H_4_0004"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> II. @@ -1399,11 +1355,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team term at boarding-school, and first saw him. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> + <a id="link2H_4_0005"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> III. @@ -1677,11 +1633,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team to time annoyed him; he shut his portfolio at last, and went out to walk. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> + <a id="link2H_4_0006"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> IV. @@ -2391,11 +2347,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team But she really made no effort to escape. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> + <a id="link2H_4_0007"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> V. @@ -2892,11 +2848,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team then: once, twice, three times,—and good night it is!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> + <a id="link2H_4_0008"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> VI. @@ -3314,11 +3270,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team did the rest. He lay senseless. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> + <a id="link2H_4_0009"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> VII. @@ -3905,11 +3861,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team with him. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> + <a id="link2H_4_0010"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> VIII. @@ -4629,11 +4585,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team the stairs, and softly called to his wife: “Miranda! Miranda!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> + <a id="link2H_4_0011"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> IX. @@ -5099,11 +5055,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team a long, stertorous note. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> + <a id="link2H_4_0012"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> X. @@ -5294,7 +5250,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team themselves from the summer. Bits of warm color, in ribbon and scarf, flashed out here and there; when she flung open her sack, she showed herself much more lavishly buttoned and bugled and bangled than the - Americans. She sat clown on the movable bench which Bartley had vacated, + Americans. She sat down on the movable bench which Bartley had vacated, and crossed her feet, very small and saucy, even in their arctics, on a stick of fire-wood, and cast up her neat profile, and rapidly made eyes at every part of the interior. “Why, it's delicious, you know. I never saw @@ -5518,11 +5474,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team really met them half-way there could be no such tiling as flirting. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> + <a id="link2H_4_0013"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XI. @@ -5846,11 +5802,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team admiration! for colt and man that bordered on reverence. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0014" id="link2H_4_0014"> + <a id="link2H_4_0014"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XII. @@ -6469,11 +6425,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team bear to have anybody bad friends with you.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0015" id="link2H_4_0015"> + <a id="link2H_4_0015"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XIII. @@ -6704,11 +6660,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team suffocated in the morning.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0016" id="link2H_4_0016"> + <a id="link2H_4_0016"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XIV. @@ -7348,11 +7304,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team if she wished, and fell asleep. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0017" id="link2H_4_0017"> + <a id="link2H_4_0017"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XV. @@ -7477,7 +7433,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team had not even looked at it. </p> <p> - Bartley walked a long time in the cold winter sunshine, fie would have + Bartley walked a long time in the cold winter sunshine, he would have liked to go back to his lodging, and hide his face in Marcia's hands, and let her pity him, but he could not bear the thought of her disappointment, and he kept walking. At last he regained courage enough to go to the @@ -7566,7 +7522,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team </p> <p> The editor bent forward and took out a long, narrow blank-book. “I guess - we shall want your article What name?” + we shall want your article. What name?” </p> <p> “Bartley J. Hubbard.” It sounded in his ears like some other name. @@ -7797,11 +7753,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team heard her close their door and lock it. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0018" id="link2H_4_0018"> + <a id="link2H_4_0018"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XVI. @@ -8104,11 +8060,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “Oh, certainly,” said Bartley. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0019" id="link2H_4_0019"> + <a id="link2H_4_0019"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XVII. @@ -8633,11 +8589,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team and simply swept it off the face of the earth.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0020" id="link2H_4_0020"> + <a id="link2H_4_0020"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XVIII. @@ -9162,11 +9118,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “Oh, Marcia!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0021" id="link2H_4_0021"> + <a id="link2H_4_0021"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XIX. @@ -9559,11 +9515,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team leap toward him. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0022" id="link2H_4_0022"> + <a id="link2H_4_0022"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XX. @@ -9831,11 +9787,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team stifled sigh. “It's improved the most selfish hound I ever knew.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0023" id="link2H_4_0023"> + <a id="link2H_4_0023"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXI. @@ -10017,11 +9973,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team call them—to meet them? It would just embarrass them, all round.” </p> <p> - “Perfectly correct, Miss Kingsbury. All that want you to do is to face the + “Perfectly correct, Miss Kingsbury. All that I want you to do is to face the facts of the case. I want you to realize that, in showing Mr. Hubbard's wife this little attention, you're not doing it because you scorn to drop an old friend, and want to do him the highest honor; but because you think - you can palm off your second-class acquaintance on them for first-class, + you can palm off your second-class acquaintances on them for first-class, and try to make up in that way for telling her she had a hooked nose!” </p> <p> @@ -10237,11 +10193,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team myself,—<i>we</i> have a two-o'clock dinner!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0024" id="link2H_4_0024"> + <a id="link2H_4_0024"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXII. @@ -10980,11 +10936,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “Poor father! poor father!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0025" id="link2H_4_0025"> + <a id="link2H_4_0025"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXIII. @@ -11659,11 +11615,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team had to brace himself again and again with vindictive resolution. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0026" id="link2H_4_0026"> + <a id="link2H_4_0026"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXIV. @@ -11714,7 +11670,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team </p> <p> “Yes, that's the best place,” Ricker commented. “What I always wonder at - in you is the rapidity with which you Ve taken on the city. You were quite + in you is the rapidity with which you’ve taken on the city. You were quite in the green wood when you came here, and now you know your Boston like a little man. I suppose it's your newspaper work that's familiarized you with the place. Well, how do you like your friend Witherby, as far as @@ -12185,17 +12141,17 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “Oh, they'll be taken care of before they reach his house.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0027" id="link2H_4_0027"> + <a id="link2H_4_0027"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXV. </h2> <p> - When they were once out under the stars, Bartley, who still, felt his + When they were once out under the stars, Bartley, who still felt his brain clear, said that he would not take his friend home at once, but would show him where he visited when he first came to Boston. The other agreed to the indulgence of this sentiment, and they set out to find @@ -12276,7 +12232,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team with his mother, I presume?” </p> <p> - “He's married,” said Halleck? sadly. “He has a house of his own.” + “He's married,” said Halleck, sadly. “He has a house of his own.” </p> <p> “Well!” said the policeman. @@ -12516,11 +12472,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “Thanks,” returned Bartley, plaintively, with his eyes closed. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0028" id="link2H_4_0028"> + <a id="link2H_4_0028"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXVI. @@ -13042,11 +12998,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team was the image which he saw. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0029" id="link2H_4_0029"> + <a id="link2H_4_0029"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXVII. @@ -13658,11 +13614,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team the good-looking girl there for her tears. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0030" id="link2H_4_0030"> + <a id="link2H_4_0030"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXVIII. @@ -13696,7 +13652,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “Dines people!” said Ricker, in an awestricken aside. </p> <p> - “No,—I mean business! You Ve never seen my kid yet: and you've never + “No,—I mean business! You’ve never seen my kid yet: and you've never seen my house. I want you to come. We've all got back, and we're in nice running order. What day are you disengaged?” </p> @@ -14253,11 +14209,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Bartley said he should not go to bed; he felt like writing. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0031" id="link2H_4_0031"> + <a id="link2H_4_0031"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXIX. @@ -14277,7 +14233,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team The pinch always seemed to come in the matter of clothes, and then Marcia gave up whatever she wanted, and said she must make the old things do. Bartley hated this; in his position he must dress well, and, as there was - nothing mean about him, he wished Marcia to dress well to. Just at this + nothing mean about him, he wished Marcia to dress well too. Just at this time he had set his heart on her having a certain sacque which they had noticed in a certain window one day when they were on Washington Street together. He surprised her a week later by bringing the sacque home to @@ -14568,7 +14524,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team anything <i>sacred</i> about it.” </p> <p> - “No,” Marcia wailed out, “its tainted with fraud from the beginning.” + “No,” Marcia wailed out, “it’s tainted with fraud from the beginning.” </p> <p> “If you like to say so,” Bartley assented, putting his napkin into its @@ -14757,7 +14713,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team hundred dollars, Bartley?” </p> <p> - “Oh, I Ve thought of that,” said Bartley, laughing at her swift + “Oh, I’ve thought of that,” said Bartley, laughing at her swift alternations of triumph and despair. “You trust to me for that.” </p> <p> @@ -14781,7 +14737,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team </p> <p> Bartley's heart gave a bound, and he broke out into an immense laugh of - relief, and clapped Halleck on the shoulder. “You looked deucedly as it' + relief, and clapped Halleck on the shoulder. “You looked deucedly as if you <i>wouldn't</i>, old man! By George, you had on such a dismal, hang-dog expression that I didn't know but <i>you'd</i> come to borrow money of <i>me</i>, and I'd made up my mind not to let you have it! But @@ -14813,17 +14769,17 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team good action!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0032" id="link2H_4_0032"> + <a id="link2H_4_0032"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXX. </h2> <p> - The Presidential canvas of the summer—which, followed upon these + The Presidential canvas of the summer which followed upon these events in Bartley's career was not very active. Sometimes, in fact, it languished so much that people almost forgot it, and a good field was afforded the Events for the practice of independent journalism. To hold a @@ -14995,11 +14951,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team recurred, and he even amused himself in turning them over. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0033" id="link2H_4_0033"> + <a id="link2H_4_0033"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXI. @@ -15577,11 +15533,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team had chosen. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0034" id="link2H_4_0034"> + <a id="link2H_4_0034"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXII. @@ -16073,11 +16029,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “The child isn't at all well,” said his mother. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0035" id="link2H_4_0035"> + <a id="link2H_4_0035"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXIII. @@ -16626,11 +16582,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team he ran, with a gesture that was like a wild and hopeless appeal. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0036" id="link2H_4_0036"> + <a id="link2H_4_0036"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXIV. @@ -16958,7 +16914,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “That would be a little <i>too</i> barefaced.” </p> <p> - Her friend kissed, her. “Olive Halleck, you're the strangest girl that + Her friend kissed her. “Olive Halleck, you're the strangest girl that ever was. I do believe you'd joke at the point of death! But I'm <i>so</i> glad you have been perfectly frank with me, and of course it's worth worlds to know that you think I've behaved horridly, and ought to make <i>some</i> @@ -16972,7 +16928,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team </p> <p> Marcia came in upon the lawyer before he had thought, after parting with - Miss Kingsbury, to tell the clerk in the outer office to deny him; but she + Miss Kingsbury, to tell the clerk in the outer office to deny her; but she was too full of her own trouble to see the reluctance which it tasked all his strength to quell, and she sank into the nearest chair unbidden. At sight of her, Atherton became the prey of one of those fantastic @@ -17208,11 +17164,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team were clear that it was a case of European travel. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0037" id="link2H_4_0037"> + <a id="link2H_4_0037"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXV. @@ -17707,11 +17663,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team it were spent, she would stiffen into the old man's stern aridity. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0038" id="link2H_4_0038"> + <a id="link2H_4_0038"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXVI. @@ -18026,11 +17982,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team in which his own family held him for them. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0039" id="link2H_4_0039"> + <a id="link2H_4_0039"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXVII. @@ -18072,7 +18028,7 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team him. It proved to be a flimsy, shabbily printed country newspaper, with an advertisement marked in one corner. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> State of Indiana, Tecumseh County In Tecumseh Circuit Court, April Term, 1879. @@ -18453,11 +18409,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Marcia's thick whisper, “I will go.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0040" id="link2H_4_0040"> + <a id="link2H_4_0040"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXVIII. @@ -18924,11 +18880,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team too, he shrank from knowing. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0041" id="link2H_4_0041"> + <a id="link2H_4_0041"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XXXIX. @@ -19325,11 +19281,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team now to show him that I'm alive!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0042" id="link2H_4_0042"> + <a id="link2H_4_0042"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XL. @@ -19785,11 +19741,11 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Bartley's chair was vacant. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0043" id="link2H_4_0043"> + <a id="link2H_4_0043"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> XLI. @@ -20105,383 +20061,9 @@ and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team don't know! 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