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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: Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series - -Author: Mrs. Henry Wood - -Release Date: October 6, 2012 [EBook #40951] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHNNY LUDLOW, FIFTH SERIES *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, eagkw and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40951 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="391" height="610" alt="Cover" /> @@ -388,7 +350,7 @@ Lavinia, let us try France!”</p> <p>One fine spring morning the Miss Preens packed up their bag and baggage and started for the Continent. They went direct to Tours, intending to make that -place their pied-à-terre, as the French phrase it; at +place their pied-à -terre, as the French phrase it; at any rate, for a time. It was not, perhaps, the wisest thing they could have done.</p> @@ -414,7 +376,7 @@ flitting away on gossamer wings.</p> <p>The Miss Preens had descended at a fourth-rate hotel, picked out of the guide-book. When Ann asked this question, they were sitting after dinner in the -table d’hôte room, their feet on the sanded floor. +table d’hôte room, their feet on the sanded floor. Sanded floors were quite usual at that time in many parts of France.</p> @@ -440,13 +402,13 @@ nest of accumulated money, so was at ease in that respect. And when the evening of the following day the railway terminus at Sainteville was reached, the pleasant, smiling face of Mary Carimon was the first -they saw outside the barrière. She must have been +they saw outside the barrière. She must have been nearly forty now, but she did not look a day older than when she had left Buttermead. Miss Lavinia<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> was a year or two older than Mary; Miss Ann a year or two younger.</p> -<p>“You must put up at the Hôtel des Princes,” remarked +<p>“You must put up at the Hôtel des Princes,” remarked Madame Carimon. “It is the only really good one in the town. They won’t charge you too much; my husband has spoken to the landlady. And you @@ -497,7 +459,7 @@ year’s end.</p> <p>“Jules goes to the college at eight o’clock every week-day, after a cup of coffee and a petit pain,” said madame to her guests, “and he returns at five to -dinner. He takes his déjeûner in the college at +dinner. He takes his déjeûner in the college at twelve, and I take mine alone at home. On Sundays he has no duty: we attend the French Protestant Church in a morning, dine at one o’clock, and go for a @@ -537,7 +499,7 @@ oyster sauce. Ten sous she had given for the cod, for she knew how to bargain now, and six sous for a dozen oysters, as large as a five-franc piece. This was followed by a delicious little fricandeau of veal, and -that by a tarte à la crême from the pastrycook’s. She +that by a tarte à la crême from the pastrycook’s. She told her guests unreservedly what all the dishes cost, to show them how reasonably people might live at Sainteville.</p> @@ -618,9 +580,9 @@ vacant. If you like, we will go to-morrow and look about.”</p> <p>It was so arranged. And little Monsieur Carimon -attended the ladies back to the Hôtel des Princes at +attended the ladies back to the Hôtel des Princes at the sober hour of nine, and bowed them into the porte -cochère with two sweeps of his hat, wishing them the +cochère with two sweeps of his hat, wishing them the good-evening and the very good-night.</p> @@ -654,10 +616,10 @@ approaching.</p> it over,” said Mary Carimon, when they parted. “I will give you a cup of tea.”</p> -<p>They dined at the table d’hôte, which both of them +<p>They dined at the table d’hôte, which both of them thought charming, and then proceeded to the Rue Pomme Cuite. Monsieur Carimon was on the point of -going out, to spend an hour at the Café Pillaud, but +going out, to spend an hour at the Café Pillaud, but he put down his hat to wait awhile, out of respect to the ladies. They told him about not having found an apartment to suit them.</p> @@ -699,7 +661,7 @@ painted red, whilst the other houses were white. All of them had green persienne shutters to the upper windows. The shop, a large one, belonging to this red house was that of the late Monsieur Jean Sauvage, -“Marchand de Vin en gros et en détail,” as the +“Marchand de Vin en gros et en détail,” as the announcement over his door used to run in the later years of his life. But when Jean Sauvage commenced business, in that same shop, it was only as a retail @@ -716,7 +678,7 @@ letters “A la Maison Rouge.”</p> <p>Whether this sort of advertisement drew the public, or whether it might have been the sterling respectability and devotion to business of Monsieur Sauvage, he got -on most successfully. The Marchand en détail became +on most successfully. The Marchand en détail became also Marchand en gros, and in course of time he added liqueurs to his wines. No citizen of Sainteville was more highly esteemed than he, both as a man and a @@ -738,7 +700,7 @@ curtains.</p> two windows. The one window displayed a few bottles of wine, most of them in straw cases; in the other window were clear flacons of liqueurs: chartreuse, -green and yellow; curaçoa, warm and ruby; eau de +green and yellow; curaçoa, warm and ruby; eau de vie de Danzick, with its fluttering gold leaf; and many other sorts.</p> @@ -788,7 +750,7 @@ little red house?”</p> <p>“Yes, we call it so,” said Monsieur Carimon. “Emile Sauvage was talking of it to me the other -evening at the café, saying they would be glad to +evening at the café, saying they would be glad to have it tenanted.”</p> <p>“I fear our good friends here would find it dull,” @@ -821,7 +783,7 @@ English eyes. Whilst Madame Carimon went into the shop to explain and ask for the key, the sisters gazed in at the windows. Lying on the wine-bottles was a small black board on which was written in white -letters, “Petite Maison à louer.”</p> +letters, “Petite Maison à louer.”</p> <p>Monsieur Gustave Sauvage, key in hand, saluted the ladies in English, which he spoke fairly well, and accompanied @@ -898,7 +860,7 @@ looking at the salon again, after coming downstairs.</p> Miss Nancy.</p> <p>“One of our tenants made a pretty salon of the -room above this, and this the salle à manger,” replied +room above this, and this the salle à manger,” replied Monsieur Gustave. “Mesdames might like to do the same, possibly?”</p> @@ -930,7 +892,7 @@ bound for five years.”</p> <p>All that was of course for mesdames’ consideration, he frankly responded. But he thought that if the -ladies were established in it with their ménage about +ladies were established in it with their ménage about them, they would not find it lonely.</p> <p>“We will give you an answer to-morrow or Monday,” @@ -944,7 +906,7 @@ that time they had decided to take the house. Nancy was wild about it. What with the change from the monotony of their country house to the bright and busy streets, the gay outdoor life, the delights of the -table d’hôte, Ann Preen looked upon Sainteville as an +table d’hôte, Ann Preen looked upon Sainteville as an earthly paradise.</p> <p>“The house is certainly more suited to you than @@ -1047,11 +1009,11 @@ the music, watching the dancing when there was any, and chattering with the acquaintances they met. They were well regarded, these new-comers, and they began to speak French after a fashion. Now and then -they went out to a soirée; once in a way gave one in -return. Very sober soirées indeed were those of Sainteville; +they went out to a soirée; once in a way gave one in +return. Very sober soirées indeed were those of Sainteville; consisting (as Sam Weller might inform us) of tea at seven o’clock with, hot galette, conversation, -cake at ten (gâteau Suisse or gâteau au rhum), and +cake at ten (gâteau Suisse or gâteau au rhum), and a glass of Picardin wine.</p> <p>They were pleased with the house, once they had @@ -1180,7 +1142,7 @@ and they all, including Mrs. Smith, bowed.</p> whisper.</p> <p>“Hardly that,” answered Mrs. Smith. “When we -were passing the Hôtel des Princes this morning, a +were passing the Hôtel des Princes this morning, a gentleman turned out of the courtyard, and he and my husband spoke to one another. The major said to me afterwards that he had formerly been in the—I @@ -1389,7 +1351,7 @@ suspect that we still meet on the pier. It would make her angry, and I can’t bear that. I dare not hint to her what Edwin said to-day—that he should take matters into his own hands. He means to go over to -Dover, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">viâ</i> Calais; stay at Dover a fortnight, as the +Dover, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">viâ</i> Calais; stay at Dover a fortnight, as the marriage law requires, and then come back to fetch<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> me; and after the marriage has taken place we shall return here to live.</p> @@ -2155,7 +2117,7 @@ what do you think we have just heard?”</p> <p>“You know those queer people, an old English aunt and three nieces, who took Madame Gibon’s rooms in -the Rue Ménar? They have all disappeared and +the Rue Ménar? They have all disappeared and have paid nobody,” continued Nancy. “Charley Palliser told us just how; he was laughing like anything over it.”</p> @@ -2475,7 +2437,7 @@ for Major Smith is better acquainted with the shady side of the Fennels than I am.</p> <p>“I heard there was an English lawyer staying at -the Hôtel des Princes, and that he had come here from +the Hôtel des Princes, and that he had come here from Douai,” observed the major. “His name’s Lockett. It must have been he who spoke to you on the pier.”</p> @@ -2873,7 +2835,7 @@ Protestant Church after morning service.</p> found that Madame Carimon, who was to spend the rest of the day with her—monsieur having gone to Lille—had not yet arrived, though the French Church -Evangélique was always over before the English. +Evangélique was always over before the English. After glancing at Flore in the kitchen, busy over the fine ducks, Lavinia set off for the Rue Pomme Cuite.</p> @@ -3042,7 +3004,7 @@ Did you find it dull here, Lavinia, all by yourself?”</p> Lavinia, catching her breath with a sigh. “I felt more lonely, Ann, than I shall ever care to feel again. Especially when I had to come home at night from -some soirée, or from spending the evening quietly +some soirée, or from spending the evening quietly with Mary Carimon or any other friend.” And she went on to tell of the feeling of terror which had so tried her.</p> @@ -3107,7 +3069,7 @@ of it again at all to any one, Nancy love.”</p> <p>Winter that year had quite set in when Sainteville found itself honoured with rather a remarkable visitor; one Signor Talcke, who descended, one morning at -the beginning of December, at the Hôtel des Princes. +the beginning of December, at the Hôtel des Princes. Though he called himself “Signor,” it seemed uncertain to what country he owed his birth. He spoke five or six languages as a native, including Hindustani. @@ -3427,7 +3389,7 @@ forefinger.</p> <p>“How did you know?” asked Signor Talcke of the grey-bearded man.</p> -<p>“I was at the Sous-Préfect’s soirée on Sunday +<p>“I was at the Sous-Préfect’s soirée on Sunday evening when you were exhibiting. I heard you tell him in French that that was the ugliest card in the pack: indicating death.”</p> @@ -3491,7 +3453,7 @@ Talcke?”</p> you will,” he quietly said, and shuffled all the cards together.</p> -<p>That ended the séance. As if determined not to +<p>That ended the séance. As if determined not to tell any more fortunes, the signor hurriedly put up the cards and disappeared from the recess. Nancy did not appear to be in the least impressed.</p> @@ -3674,7 +3636,7 @@ Henri Dupuis with his recently married wife, and Charles Palliser.</p> <p>After dinner, over the coffee, Monsieur Henri -Dupuis suddenly spoke of the soirée at Miss Bosanquet’s +Dupuis suddenly spoke of the soirée at Miss Bosanquet’s the previous Friday, regretting that he and his wife had been unable to attend it. He was engaged the whole evening with a patient dangerously ill, @@ -3736,7 +3698,7 @@ bustling in with a letter in her hand.</p> <p>“Tenez, madame,” she said, putting it beside Mrs. Fennel. “I laid it down in the kitchen when the -facteur brought it, whilst I was preparing the déjeûner, +facteur brought it, whilst I was preparing the déjeûner, and forgot it afterwards.”</p> <p>Before Nancy could touch the letter, her husband @@ -3880,10 +3842,10 @@ payments, she could not do it.</p> came to them. Lavinia received a letter from Paris, written by Colonel Selby. He had been there for two days on business, he said, and purposed returning -viâ Sainteville, to take a passing glimpse at herself +viâ Sainteville, to take a passing glimpse at herself and her sister. He hoped to be down that afternoon by the three-o’clock train, and he asked them to meet -him at the Hôtel des Princes afterwards, and to stay +him at the Hôtel des Princes afterwards, and to stay and dine with him. He proposed crossing to London by the night boat.</p> @@ -3907,7 +3869,7 @@ him to see their domicile, the little red house (which he did not seem to admire), and thence to Madame Carimon’s. In the Buttermead days, the colonel and Mary Featherston had been great friends. He invited -her and her husband to join them at the table d’hôte +her and her husband to join them at the table d’hôte dinner at five o’clock.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p> @@ -3946,7 +3908,7 @@ of house and home: <em>myself</em>, at any rate.”</p> then he will get it back for me,” twittered Nancy.</p> <p>Monsieur Jules Carimon was not able to come to -the table d’hôte; his duties that night would detain +the table d’hôte; his duties that night would detain him at the college until seven o’clock. It happened so on occasion. Colonel Selby sat at one end of their party, Lavinia at the other; Mary Carimon and Nancy @@ -3974,7 +3936,7 @@ he cried. So it was evident that they knew one another.</p> <p>But you can’t talk very much across people at a -table d’hôte; and Lavinia and Mr. Lockett were, so to +table d’hôte; and Lavinia and Mr. Lockett were, so to say, left together again. She put a question to him, dropping her voice to a whisper.</p> @@ -4059,7 +4021,7 @@ found Captain Fennel there. He had just got in, he said, and wanted some supper.</p> <p>Whilst he was taking it, his wife told him of Mr. -Lockett’s having sat by them at the table d’hôte, and +Lockett’s having sat by them at the table d’hôte, and that he and Colonel Selby were acquainted with one another. Captain Fennel drew a grim face at the information, and asked whether the lawyer had also @@ -4281,7 +4243,7 @@ store for me. And I knew I should not escape it.</p> Carimon was always busy on Monday mornings. On the one about to be referred to, she had finished her household duties by eleven o’clock, and then sat down -in her little salle-à-manger, which she also made her +in her little salle-à -manger, which she also made her workroom, to mend some of Monsieur Carimon’s cotton socks. By her side, on the small work-table, lay a silver brooch which Miss Perry had inadvertently @@ -4370,7 +4332,7 @@ time.”</p> <p>“Nancy says so. It did as well as any other place. Captain Fennel’s motive was to hide away from the -lawyers we met at the table d’hôte.”</p> +lawyers we met at the table d’hôte.”</p> <p>“Have they left Sainteville, I wonder, those lawyers?”</p> @@ -4442,7 +4404,7 @@ Lavinia.</p> before to-day. It’s just a sort of order from the law court on Captain Fennel, to pay up some debt that he owes; and, if he does not pay, the court will issue a -procès against him. That’s what it is, madame.”</p> +procès against him. That’s what it is, madame.”</p> <p>Lavinia carried the paper into the salon, and sat studying it. As far as she could make it out, Mr. @@ -4724,7 +4686,7 @@ Monsieur Jules Carimon had a cousin, Madame Degravier, who kept a superior boarding-house there, much patronized by the English; he had written to her to introduce Miss Preen, and to intimate that it -would oblige him if the terms were made très facile. +would oblige him if the terms were made très facile. Madame had written back to Lavinia most satisfactorily, and, so far, that was arranged.</p> @@ -4740,10 +4702,10 @@ is, if Captain Fennel and Nancy were still in the Petite Maison Rouge, and he was enabled to find means to continue in it—then, perhaps, she might return to the town. Not to make one of the household—never -again that; but she might find a little pied-à-terre +again that; but she might find a little pied-à -terre in some other home.</p> -<p>Meanwhile, Lavinia heard no more of the procès, +<p>Meanwhile, Lavinia heard no more of the procès, and she wondered how the captain was meeting it. During the Easter week she made her farewell calls. That week she was not very much at home; one or @@ -4793,7 +4755,7 @@ her compassionate eyes as she held Lavinia’s hands between her own. “Ay, for certain,” she replied in French. “She and her sons had said so privately to one another ever since the abrupt coming home of the -strange captain to the petite maison à côté.”</p> +strange captain to the petite maison à côté.”</p> <p>On Sunday, Lavinia, accompanied by Nancy and Captain Fennel, attended morning service for the last @@ -5257,7 +5219,7 @@ speedy.”</p> <p>“More like poison,” rejoined the younger man, Monsieur Podevin. He was brother to the proprietor -of the Hôtel des Princes, and was much respected by +of the Hôtel des Princes, and was much respected by his fellow-citizens as a safe and skilful practitioner.</p> <p>“The thought of poison naturally occurred to me @@ -5301,11 +5263,11 @@ never was so upset. Shall I mix you one?”</p> <p>Monsieur Dupuis shook his head. He never took anything so strong. The most calming thing, in his -opinion, was a glass of eau sucrée, with a teaspoonful +opinion, was a glass of eau sucrée, with a teaspoonful of orange-flower water in it.</p> <p>“Sir,” he went on, “I have been conversing with -my esteemed confrère. We cannot, either of us, decide +my esteemed confrère. We cannot, either of us, decide what mademoiselle has died of, being unable to see any adequate cause for it; and we wish to hold a post-mortem examination. I presume you will not @@ -5466,7 +5428,7 @@ all night.”</p> Carimon to the small fry now gathered round him.</p> <p>He turned back home himself. When he entered -the salle-à-manger, Pauline was carrying away the last +the salle-à -manger, Pauline was carrying away the last of the breakfast-things. Her mistress stood putting a little water on a musk plant in the window.</p> @@ -5525,7 +5487,7 @@ did not know.</p> <p>“I could have wished for an examination, to ascertain the true cause of the seizure,” continued the doctor, “and I come now from expressing my regrets -to my confrère, Monsieur Podevin. He agrees with +to my confrère, Monsieur Podevin. He agrees with me in deciding that we cannot press it in opposition to the family. Captain Fennel was quite willing it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span> should take place, but his wife, poor distressed woman, @@ -5844,8 +5806,8 @@ without Mary Carimon,” pleaded Nancy.</p> <p>“Just so. I am not objecting.”</p> <p>With this somewhat ungracious assent, Nancy had -to content herself. She ordered a gâteau Suisse, the -nicest sort of gâteau to be had at Sainteville; and +to content herself. She ordered a gâteau Suisse, the +nicest sort of gâteau to be had at Sainteville; and told Flore that she must for once remain for the evening.</p> @@ -5912,7 +5874,7 @@ Fennel.</p> <p>Nancy looked as delighted as a child. She called to Flore to bring plates, turned out the fruits and -handed them round. Flore also brought in the gâteau +handed them round. Flore also brought in the gâteau Suisse and glasses, and a bottle of Picardin wine, that the company might regale themselves. Charley Palliser suddenly spoke; he had just thought of @@ -5987,7 +5949,7 @@ man.</p> <p>They did as they were bid. This order, as it struck them all, could only have reference to keeping out some nefarious intruder, such as a thief. Flore -had followed them in, after picking up the débris. +had followed them in, after picking up the débris. She put the book and the dominoes on the table, and stood staring over her mistress’s shoulder.</p> @@ -6032,10 +5994,10 @@ but to none of them did it sound natural or straightforward.</p> <p>Order was restored. The ladies took a glass of wine -each and some of the gâteau, which Flore handed +each and some of the gâteau, which Flore handed round. Charles Palliser said good-night and departed with his book. Captain Fennel went out at -the same time. He turned into the café on the Place +the same time. He turned into the café on the Place Ronde, and drank three small glasses of cognac in succession.</p> @@ -6498,7 +6460,7 @@ also, for she was now at liberty to return to ordinary arrangements. Thus there was a lull in the storm. They walked out with Mrs. James on the pier, and took her to see the different points of interest -in the town; they even gave a little soirée for her, +in the town; they even gave a little soirée for her, and in return were invited to other houses.</p> <p>One day, when the two ladies were gossiping @@ -6864,7 +6826,7 @@ fell down upon the brick floor of the kitchen.</p> neat little slip of a kitchen was bright and hot with the morning sun. Madame, herself, stood before the paste-board, making a green-apricot tart. Of pies -and tarts à la mode Anglaise, Monsieur Jules was +and tarts à la mode Anglaise, Monsieur Jules was more fond than a schoolboy; and of all tarts known to the civilized world, none can equal that of a green apricot.</p> @@ -6887,7 +6849,7 @@ me, and that I must present myself there at half-past nine to walk home with her. Well, madame, I went accordingly, and found nobody at home there but the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span> bonne, Thomasine. Her master was dining out at the -Sous-préfet’s, and her mistress had gone out with some +Sous-préfet’s, and her mistress had gone out with some more ladies to walk on the pier, as it was so fine an evening. Naturally I thought my mistress was one of the ladies, and sat there waiting for her and chatting @@ -7121,7 +7083,7 @@ was talking about.</p> <p>“I have not forgotten, I can never forget, Jules, the very singular Fate-reading, or whatever you may please to call it, spoken by the Astrologer Talcke last -winter at Miss Bosanquet’s soirée. You were not in +winter at Miss Bosanquet’s soirée. You were not in the room, you know, but I related it to you when we arrived home. He certainly foretold Lavinia’s death, as I, recalling the words, look upon it now. He said @@ -7683,7 +7645,7 @@ patients not releasing him sooner, we started for Sainteville; he, I, and David Preen. Getting in at ten at night after a boisterous passage, Featherston took up his quarters at Monsieur Carimon’s, we ours -at the Hôtel des Princes.</p> +at the Hôtel des Princes.</p> <p>She looked very ill. Ill and changed. I had seen Ann Preen at Buttermead when she lived there, but @@ -7949,14 +7911,14 @@ mind at the time.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span></p> -<p>The fair-faced little médecin shook his head at this +<p>The fair-faced little médecin shook his head at this appeal, as much as to say he thought that the subject was a puzzling one. Naturally the doubt had crossed him, and very strongly, he answered; but the difficulty in assuming that view of the matter lay in her having partaken solely of the food which the rest of the household had partaken of; that and nothing else. -His confrère, Monsieur Podevin, held a very conclusive +His confrère, Monsieur Podevin, held a very conclusive opinion—that she had died of poison.</p> <p>David Preen drew towards him a writing-case which @@ -7992,7 +7954,7 @@ house when he was not in it, not even at Sainteville——”</p> “When the man was living! Come, come, Mary, that is going too far!”</p> -<p>“Quelle drôle d’idée!” exclaimed the little doctor.</p> +<p>“Quelle drôle d’idée!” exclaimed the little doctor.</p> <p>“He appeared to her twice, she told me,” continued Mary Carimon. “She had been spending the evening @@ -8091,7 +8053,7 @@ poison.”</p> <p>“She had had nothing but slops all day, messieurs, which I made and carried to her,” put in Flore; “and when I left, at night, she was, as Monsieur le -Médecin put it, ‘all well to look at.’”</p> +Médecin put it, ‘all well to look at.’”</p> <p>“Flore did not make the arrowroot which she took later,” said Mary Carimon, taking up the narrative. @@ -10446,7 +10408,7 @@ first chance. Come, Mr. Monk.”</p> <p>The semi-accusation was spoken by Jenkins on the spur of the moment, in his anger at the other’s words. -Monk was in a degree Jenkins’s protégé, and it had +Monk was in a degree Jenkins’s protégé, and it had not previously occurred to him that <em>he</em> could be in any way to blame.</p> @@ -10493,7 +10455,7 @@ either,” returned Monk, with a stress on the first word; <p>“I saw some result of the sort once, sir. It was at a gentleman’s place at Chiswick. All the choice plants were taken indoors to improvise a kind of conservatory -for a night fête. They were carried back the next +for a night fête. They were carried back the next day, seemingly none the worse, and on the morrow were found withered.”</p> @@ -10858,7 +10820,7 @@ I have come straight from there. Now then, my good woman, I have not much time.”</p> <p>Goody Picker’s will was good to hold out longer, but -she surrendered à coup de main, as so many of us have +she surrendered à coup de main, as so many of us have to do when superior power is brought to bear. Monk overheered it, was the substance of her answer. On coming in from work that there same blessed evening—and @@ -14629,7 +14591,7 @@ her. What brought her to Oxford?</p> tongue. Tod had cared for Sophie Chalk—there could be little doubt of it—as one never cares for anybody again in life: and it might be just as well—in spite -of the exposé of mademoiselle’s false ways and misdoings—that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[360]</a></span> +of the exposé of mademoiselle’s false ways and misdoings—that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[360]</a></span> they did not meet. Syrens are syrens all the world over.</p> @@ -14799,7 +14761,7 @@ Sophie would not play herself; she dispersed her fascinations amidst the company while they played, and sang songs at the piano—one of the best pianos to be found in Oxford. There set in a kind of furore for -pretty Mrs. Everty; the men who had the entrée there +pretty Mrs. Everty; the men who had the entrée there went wild over her charms, and vied with each other in making her costly presents. Sophie broke into raptures of delight over each with the seeming simplicity @@ -14976,7 +14938,7 @@ continue their promenade, and I lost sight of them.</p> <p>I did not like it. It was not satisfactory. He had rowed her up—or perhaps driven her up—and was -marching about with her tête-à-tête under the sweet +marching about with her tête-à -tête under the sweet spring sunshine. No great harm in itself this pastime: but he might grow too fond of it. That she had reacquired all her strong influence over Tod’s heart was @@ -15093,7 +15055,7 @@ was at her door.</p> and Lord Gaiton, and the two men from Magdalen, and—well, it’s no use enumerating—seven or eight in all. Richardson and another were quarrelling at -écarté, four were at whist; Tod was sitting apart with +écarté, four were at whist; Tod was sitting apart with Sophie Chalk.</p> <p>She was got up like a fairy at the play, in a @@ -15118,9 +15080,9 @@ ready to go in.”</p> later than it was; and answered curtly and coolly.</p> <p>“Ready?—no. I have not had my revenge yet at -écarté.”</p> +écarté.”</p> -<p>Approaching the écarté table, he sat down. Mrs. +<p>Approaching the écarté table, he sat down. Mrs. Everty drew a chair behind Lord Gaiton, and looked over his hand.</p> @@ -15950,7 +15912,7 @@ syren!—and it was at our house he met her first!”</p> <p>After Mr. and Mrs. Ap-Jenkyns left, for she was tired, they began cards. Sophie was engrossing -Gaiton, and Tod sat down to écarté. He refused at +Gaiton, and Tod sat down to écarté. He refused at first, but Richardson drew him on.</p> <p>“I’ll show Tod the letter I had from home,” said @@ -16998,12 +16960,12 @@ following corrections were made, on page<br /> 23 “harbonr” changed to “harbour” (efforts to make the harbour.)<br /> 40 “lives” changed to “live” (How does he live then?)<br /> -71 “soireé” changed to “soirée” (home at night from some -soirée)<br /> +71 “soireé” changed to “soirée” (home at night from some +soirée)<br /> 78 “interupted” changed to “interrupted” (interrupted Nancy)<br /> -88 “déjeuner” changed to “déjeûner” ( whilst I was preparing the -déjeûner)<br /> +88 “déjeuner” changed to “déjeûner” ( whilst I was preparing the +déjeûner)<br /> 105 “to-morow” changed to “to-morrow” (he probably will be here to-morrow)<br /> 111 “Livinia” changed to “Lavinia” (Lavinia did not @@ -17019,384 +16981,7 @@ native impudence came to her aid).</p> and hyphenation.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series, by Mrs. Henry Wood - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHNNY LUDLOW, FIFTH SERIES *** - -***** This file should be named 40951-h.htm or 40951-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/9/5/40951/ - -Produced by David Edwards, eagkw and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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