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diff --git a/42462-h/42462-h.htm b/42462-h/42462-h.htm index 7824d91..75e906c 100644 --- a/42462-h/42462-h.htm +++ b/42462-h/42462-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Barbara Rebell, by Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes. @@ -201,47 +201,7 @@ div.tnote { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Barbara Rebell, by Marie Belloc Lowndes - -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: Barbara Rebell - -Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes - -Illustrator: Gilbert White - -Release Date: April 3, 2013 [EBook #42462] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BARBARA REBELL *** - - - - -Produced by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42462 ***</div> <div class="image-center" style="max-width: 439px;"> <img class="border" src="images/cover.jpg" width="439" height="700" alt="cover" title="cover"/> @@ -327,7 +287,7 @@ occurrences.</p> <p class="indent">Barbara's birthday began very differently from what she had thought it would do. The little girl had pleasant recollections of the fashion in which her last -fête day, "la Sainte Barbe," had been celebrated. +fête day, "la Sainte Barbe," had been celebrated. She remembered vividly the white bouquets brought by the tradespeople, the cakes and gifts offered by her little French friends, they who dwelt in Legitimist @@ -424,15 +384,15 @@ mind when brought suddenly across anything in the nature of a masked attack.</p> <p class="indent">"Enfin qu'est que ce Monsieur Rebell a bien pu faire -de si terrible? Pour moi il a un air sinistre, cet homme-là!"</p> +de si terrible? Pour moi il a un air sinistre, cet homme-là !"</p> -<p class="indent">"Peut-être a-t-il tué quelqu'un en duel! Il parait +<p class="indent">"Peut-être a-t-il tué quelqu'un en duel! Il parait <span class="pagenum"><a name="page5" id="page5"></a>[pg 5]</span> -qu'en Angleterre on est devenu féroce sur ce -châpitre-là."</p> +qu'en Angleterre on est devenu féroce sur ce +châpitre-là ."</p> <p class="indent">"En tous cas, cette pauvre Madame Rebell est bien -jolie, et bien à plaindre!"</p> +jolie, et bien à plaindre!"</p> <p class="indent">The effect of these few carelessly uttered words had been to transform the listener from a happy baby into a @@ -669,7 +629,7 @@ then newly-established, brilliant journal which had become the most widely read paper in French society:—</p> <p class="indent">"Her Majesty the Empress to-day received in -private audience Madame Sampiero, <i>née</i> Rebell, one of +private audience Madame Sampiero, <i>née</i> Rebell, one of the most sympathetic and distinguished of English great ladies, and this in spite of the fact that the name of Sampiero is full of glorious memories to those who @@ -1099,7 +1059,7 @@ place where he found himself, he reminded himself, with some quickening of his pulses, that no Englishman living had a right to feel in closer touch with the romance of this French town. In the great grim -castle—so unlike the usual smiling château—which rose +castle—so unlike the usual smiling château—which rose to the right behind the Villa d'Arcole, his own Stuart forbears had spent their dignified exile. More, he himself had deliberately chosen to associate the most @@ -1196,13 +1156,13 @@ not a little to his successes when Foreign Minister, he soon made friends with the shy, reserved child.</p> <p class="indent">But Madame Sampiero took no advantage of the -<i>tête-à-tête</i> so thoughtfully arranged by her friend; +<i>tête-à -tête</i> so thoughtfully arranged by her friend; instead, but looking intently the while into Adela Rebell's sensitive face, she dwelt wholly on the immediate present; telling of her stay in Paris, the first for many years; of her visit to St. Cloud—in a few satirical sentences she described to her silent listener the -interview with the Empress Eugénie amid the almost +interview with the Empress Eugénie amid the almost theatrical splendour of the summer palace. But the gay voice altered in quality as she asked the quick question, "I suppose Richard reads the <i>Figaro</i>? Did he @@ -1337,8 +1297,8 @@ giving a children's party. Look, I have brought her a special invitation all to herself!" and from her pocket—for those were the days of voluminous pockets—the speaker drew a small card on which was written in gold -letters, "Le Prince Impérial a l'honneur d'inviter -Mademoiselle Barbara Rebell à gouter. St. Cloud, +letters, "Le Prince Impérial a l'honneur d'inviter +Mademoiselle Barbara Rebell à gouter. St. Cloud, 9 Juin, 1870." "I told the Empress," she added eagerly, "that I should like to bring my god-daughter <span class="pagenum"><a name="page28" id="page28"></a>[pg 28]</span> @@ -1415,7 +1375,7 @@ myself persuade your father to let me take you to a real ball, at the Tuileries!" Turning to Mrs. Rebell, she added: "Julian and I both agree that in time, say in six or eight years, I should do very well to take some -small château near Paris, and spend there part of each +small château near Paris, and spend there part of each year. Julia will then be old enough to have masters, and I am sure, indeed we both think,"—she turned to the impassive man now walking slowly by her side,—"that @@ -1434,10 +1394,10 @@ future. But, Adela, I was not only thinking of my Julia, but also of your little Barbara. Richard cannot mean her always to lead a cloistered life. In eight years she will be grown-up, eager to see something of -the world. Where could she make her début so delightfully +the world. Where could she make her début so delightfully as at the Tuileries? Well, little Barbara"—and again she bent over the child—"look forward to the -time when I shall be quite ready to play my <i>rôle</i> of +time when I shall be quite ready to play my <i>rôle</i> of fairy godmother, and so introduce you to the most beautiful, the most brilliant, the most delightful Court in the world!"</p> @@ -1512,8 +1472,8 @@ both strove rather to forget than to remember.</p> <h2>CHAPTER I.</h2> <blockquote> -<p class="indent">"Mon pauvre cœur maladroit, mon cœur plein de révolte et -d'espérance...."</p> +<p class="indent">"Mon pauvre cœur maladroit, mon cœur plein de révolte et +d'espérance...."</p> <p class="center">"The past is death's, the future is thine own."</p> @@ -2000,10 +1960,10 @@ down the old house.</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Et voilà que vieillie et qu'infirme avant l'heure</span> -<span class="i0">Ta main tremble à jamais qui n'a jamais tremblé,</span> -<span class="i0">Voilà qu'encore plus haute et que toujours meilleure</span> -<span class="i0">L'âme seule est debout dans ton être accablé...."</span> +<span class="i0">"Et voilà que vieillie et qu'infirme avant l'heure</span> +<span class="i0">Ta main tremble à jamais qui n'a jamais tremblé,</span> +<span class="i0">Voilà qu'encore plus haute et que toujours meilleure</span> +<span class="i0">L'âme seule est debout dans ton être accablé...."</span> </div> </div> @@ -2335,7 +2295,7 @@ said; "when you are wanting anything, just send one or more along by post,—duly registered, of course,"—and under her hand Barbara felt the crinkle of bank notes. "She would like you to get your things, your -clothes and a' that, from Paris. Old Léonie, Madam's +clothes and a' that, from Paris. Old Léonie, Madam's French maid,—I don't think you've seen her yet,—will give you the addresses. Madam likes those about her to look well. I'm the only one that has any licence @@ -2464,7 +2424,7 @@ the following inscription:—</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Hic, ubi ludebas vagula olim et blandula virgo,</span> -<span class="i2">Julia, defendunt membra foventque rosæ.</span> +<span class="i2">Julia, defendunt membra foventque rosæ.</span> <span class="i0">Laetius ah quid te tenuit, quid purius, orbis?—</span> <span class="i2">Nunc solum mater quod fueris meminit"</span> </div> @@ -3238,7 +3198,7 @@ measured voice—"that our dear little friend, Lucy <span class="pagenum"><a name="page75" id="page75"></a>[pg 75]</span> Kemp, is something of an heiress—that in four years time, when she is five-and-twenty, that is, there will be -handed over to her £25,000?"</p> +handed over to her £25,000?"</p> <p class="indent">And then, while her son listened to her in complete silence, giving no clue as to how he regarded the information, @@ -3305,7 +3265,7 @@ of the sexes, he was most punctilious and old-fashioned, perhaps lacking the essential nobility which would have been required in such a man as himself to accept a fortune, even from a beloved hand. What, -take Lucy's £20,000—or was it £25,000—in order to +take Lucy's £20,000—or was it £25,000—in order to start his bark once more on the perilous political sea? How little his mother understood him if she seriously thought he could bring himself to do such a thing, and @@ -3620,8 +3580,8 @@ ways of love were better than the new.</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que de l'être pour</span> -<span class="i0">soi-même."</span> +<span class="i0">"Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que de l'être pour</span> +<span class="i0">soi-même."</span> </div> </div> @@ -3878,7 +3838,7 @@ her bright little eyes.</p> never did see a young lady so shabby, but there, out in those hot climates——" she paused tolerantly. "Never mind; we'll soon make that all right. Madam set -Léonie to work at once. As for looks," Mrs. Turke +Léonie to work at once. As for looks," Mrs. Turke bridled, "Mrs. Rebell favours her poor papa more than she does her poor mamma," she said, primly, "but she's a very pleasant-spoken young lady. I do think you'll @@ -3932,7 +3892,7 @@ delicate features,—intensified the fire in the blue eyes, as a brighter scheme of colouring had not known how to do.</p> -<p class="indent">Léonie—the lean, clever-looking, deft-fingered French +<p class="indent">Léonie—the lean, clever-looking, deft-fingered French maid who had grown old in the service of her mistress—stood by the couch looking down at her handiwork with an air of pride: "Madame a voulu faire un petit @@ -3959,10 +3919,10 @@ so little how I look,—after all what does it matter?"</p> of the murmured words, "Nonsense, child, it does matter, very much!" and she divined the phrase, "A woman should always try to look her best." -Barbara smiled as Léonie joined in with "Une jolie -femme doît sa beauté à elle-même," adding, in response +Barbara smiled as Léonie joined in with "Une jolie +femme doît sa beauté à elle-même," adding, in response to another of those muffled questioning murmurs, -"Mais oui, Madame, Monsieur Boringdon a dû venir +"Mais oui, Madame, Monsieur Boringdon a dû venir avec Monsieur Berwick."</p> <p class="indent">Mrs. Rebell looked up rather eagerly; if Oliver @@ -3975,13 +3935,13 @@ impress favourably at Chancton should see her at a disadvantage.</p> <p class="indent">Again came low murmurs of which the significance -entirely escaped Barbara, but which Léonie had heard +entirely escaped Barbara, but which Léonie had heard and understood: quickly the maid went across the great room, and in a moment her brown hands had <span class="pagenum"><a name="page94" id="page94"></a>[pg 94]</span> pulled open a deep drawer in the Buhl wardrobe which had once adorned the bed chamber of the last Queen of -France. Now Léonie was coming back towards her +France. Now Léonie was coming back towards her mistress' couch, towards Barbara, her arms laden with a delicate foam of old lace.</p> @@ -4150,7 +4110,7 @@ island, there lived a man who might some day make Barbara as wretched as she herself had been made by Napoleone Sampiero. But there remained the power of so acting that Barbara should be armed -<i>cap-à-pie</i> for any worldly warfare that might come—the +<i>cap-à -pie</i> for any worldly warfare that might come—the power of surrounding her with that outward appearance of importance and prosperity which, as Madame Sampiero well knew, means much in this @@ -4284,7 +4244,7 @@ and popular man about town, who, not long after his marriage to a reigning beauty, had been overwhelmed by the shameful accusation of cheating at cards; the subsequent libel case which had developed into a mid-Victorian -<i>cause célèbre</i>; the award of nominal damages; +<i>cause célèbre</i>; the award of nominal damages; and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rebell's ultimate retreat, for ever, to the Continent—it was all well known to James Berwick.</p> @@ -4315,7 +4275,7 @@ only knew how to be, had received him with great kindness, striving to put him completely at his ease. There had been there also his uncle, Lord Bosworth, and a certain Septimus Daman, an old friend and -habitué of the Priory in those later days of Lord +habitué of the Priory in those later days of Lord Bosworth and Madame Sampiero's intimacy, when no woman ever crossed its stately threshold.</p> @@ -4571,7 +4531,7 @@ Rebell. Indeed, she was quite near the window, sitting—an hour ago the fact would have shocked him—at Madame Sampiero's own writing-table, at that exquisite Louis XV. escritoire which had been discovered -by Lord Bosworth in a Provençal château, +by Lord Bosworth in a Provençal château, and given by him, now many a long year ago, to the mistress of Chancton Priory.</p> @@ -4774,7 +4734,7 @@ proximities of an innocent kind.</p> <p class="indent">Unfortunately Berwick was not always as grateful as he should have been to so kind and far-sighted a sister. He would suddenly take a fancy to the freshest and prettiest -<i>débutante</i>, and for a while, perhaps from June to August, +<i>débutante</i>, and for a while, perhaps from June to August, Arabella would tremble. On one occasion she had conveyed some idea of her brother's position to an astute lady who had regarded him as a prospective son-in-law, @@ -4821,9 +4781,9 @@ contemptuously and leniently the man.</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Crois-tu donc que l'on peut commander à son cœur?</span> -<span class="i0">On aime malgré soi, car l'Amour est un hôte</span> -<span class="i0">Qui vient à son caprice, et toujours en vainqueur."</span> +<span class="i0">"Crois-tu donc que l'on peut commander à son cœur?</span> +<span class="i0">On aime malgré soi, car l'Amour est un hôte</span> +<span class="i0">Qui vient à son caprice, et toujours en vainqueur."</span> </div> </div> @@ -5108,7 +5068,7 @@ had done before, Lucy's odd relation to the young man. with rising anger—"what the devil did Boringdon mean by all that sort of thing?"</p> -<p class="indent">"Il faut qu'une porte soît ouverte ou fermée!" The +<p class="indent">"Il faut qu'une porte soît ouverte ou fermée!" The wise French saying which provided de Musset with a title for one of his most poignant tragi-comedies, was probably unknown to General Kemp, but it exactly @@ -5425,7 +5385,7 @@ had soon discovered that the doctor, or "Kirdy," as he was unceremoniously styled amongst themselves, was once more the real over-lord of Chancton, and Boringdon found himself reduced to the disagreeable -<i>rôle</i> of rent collector, his decisions concerning any +<i>rôle</i> of rent collector, his decisions concerning any important matter being constantly appealed from, and revoked by, the joint authority of Madame Sampiero and Doctor McKirdy.</p> @@ -5496,7 +5456,7 @@ trifling lack of courtesy would give McKirdy a slight advantage, but during the last few days he had had <span class="pagenum"><a name="page132" id="page132"></a>[pg 132]</span> other things to think of than his sister's unfortunate -protégée, in whom, however, he unwillingly recognised +protégée, in whom, however, he unwillingly recognised another adherent to the McKirdy faction.</p> <p class="indent">And yet the first meeting of Boringdon and Barbara @@ -6427,7 +6387,7 @@ famous, which belonged to James Berwick, and which was often ridden by his sister.</p> <p class="indent">The unknown horsewoman was habited, booted, and -hatted, in a far more <i>cap-à-pie</i> manner than was usual +hatted, in a far more <i>cap-à -pie</i> manner than was usual with the fair followers of the South Sussex Hunt, and she and her mount together, made, from the sportsman's point of view, a very perfect and pretty picture, though @@ -6479,7 +6439,7 @@ downs on the morning of her first day at Chancton. It was nice of Oliver Boringdon to have brought her up at once, like this, to the young lady whom he admired, but who was not,—so Barbara thought she -remembered McKirdy saying,—as yet his <i>fiancée</i>.</p> +remembered McKirdy saying,—as yet his <i>fiancée</i>.</p> <p class="indent">Mrs. Rebell had lately seen a great deal of Grace Johnstone's brother, in fact he was constantly at the @@ -6563,7 +6523,7 @@ surrounding country. To the right of the kind of platform upon which the field was now gathered together, the hill dropped abruptly into a dark wood, a corner of the ancient forest of Anderida, that crossed -by Cæsar when he came from Gaul—a forest stretching +by Cæsar when he came from Gaul—a forest stretching from end to end of the South Downs, broken by swift rivers running down to the sea. It was here—but Barbara, gazing with delighted eyes down over the treetops, @@ -7274,7 +7234,7 @@ then, as is nearly always the way with those women who inspire sudden passions, Mrs. Rebell's charm was not, in its essence, one of sex. The grim, silent Scottish woman, Madame Sampiero's night attendant, -smiled when Barbara came into the room, and Léonie, +smiled when Barbara came into the room, and Léonie, the French maid, had very early informed her mistress, "Je sens que je vais adorer cette Madame Rebell!" while as for James Berwick, his attitude the more @@ -8700,7 +8660,7 @@ McKirdy to be!</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Que vous me coûtez cher, ô mon cœur, pour vos plaisirs!"</span> +<span class="i0">"Que vous me coûtez cher, ô mon cœur, pour vos plaisirs!"</span> </div> </div> @@ -8887,7 +8847,7 @@ by her side paced a tall, large-framed man; now he was bending towards his companion, listening to what she was telling him with amused interest. The Duke and Arabella Berwick walked just behind them, and some -half-dozen men and women ended the little cortége.</p> +half-dozen men and women ended the little cortége.</p> <p class="indent">Men wear Court dress with a difference. To Lord Bosworth, the velvet coat, the knee-breeches, and @@ -9468,7 +9428,7 @@ compatible with instinctive dignity.</p> would have been better pleased had she not been now so completely, so happily at her ease. He felt that between them there lay—not the drawn sword which -played so strange and symbolical a part in mediæval +played so strange and symbolical a part in mediæval marriage by procuration—but a sheaf of lilies. Berwick would have preferred the sword.</p> @@ -9711,7 +9671,7 @@ there was no one woman who had ever roused in him the peculiar sentiment that he felt for Mrs. Rebell. The feeling he now experienced was more akin, though far deeper and tenderer in texture, to the fleeting fancy -he had had for that pretty <i>débutante</i> whom Arabella +he had had for that pretty <i>débutante</i> whom Arabella had so greatly feared. But, whereas he had borne the girl's defection, when it had come, with easy philosophy, he knew that his relation to Barbara was such @@ -9737,7 +9697,7 @@ begged her forgiveness.</p> <p class="indent">A Frenchman, once speaking to him of an acquaintance whose unhappy passion for a celebrated beauty was being much discussed, had observed, "Il l'a -dans la peau! Dans ces cas-là il n'y a rien à faire!" +dans la peau! Dans ces cas-là il n'y a rien à faire!" He had thought the expression curiously apt, and he remembered it to-night. More than once during the last few days he had found himself planning his immediate @@ -10301,7 +10261,7 @@ most irritatingly quiescent. He went in and out of his dressing-room, saying "Yes," and "That's it, is it?" at suitable intervals. Still, when she stopped speaking, he would suddenly appear in some leisurely state of -<i>déshabillé</i> and his wife would feel encouraged, to go on, +<i>déshabillé</i> and his wife would feel encouraged, to go on, and even to ask for his opinion and advice.</p> <p class="indent">"And now, Tom, what do you <i>really</i> think of the @@ -11268,7 +11228,7 @@ career, to have so conciliatory, so charming a creature by his side. Arabella Berwick, in spite of her many fine qualities and intellectual gifts, possessed neither the tact nor the self-effacement so essential to the fulfilment of -the <i>rôle</i> of statesman's wife or sister.</p> +the <i>rôle</i> of statesman's wife or sister.</p> <p class="indent">And now O'Flaherty learned that all the time he had been thinking these things, Mrs. Rebell was well aware @@ -12138,7 +12098,7 @@ had done last night.</p> <p class="right"><span class="smcap">George Meredith.</span></p> -<p class="indent">"L'orgueil, remède souverain, qui n'est pas à l'usage des âmes +<p class="indent">"L'orgueil, remède souverain, qui n'est pas à l'usage des âmes tendres."</p> <p class="right"><span class="smcap">Stendhal.</span></p> @@ -12280,7 +12240,7 @@ the way to the room where we have put Mrs. Rebell." And the girl went on alone, groping her way up the dark, to her they seemed the interminable, stairs.</p> -<p class="indent">An amazing figure—Mrs. Turke in <i>déshabillé</i>—awaited +<p class="indent">An amazing figure—Mrs. Turke in <i>déshabillé</i>—awaited Lucy on the top landing, and greeted her with considerable circumstance.</p> @@ -12685,7 +12645,7 @@ ascertained that she would like to see you."</p> <blockquote> <p class="indent">"Il n'y a rien de doux comme le retour de joie qui suit le renoncement de la joie, rien de vif, de profond, de charmant, -comme l'enchantement du désenchanté."</p> +comme l'enchantement du désenchanté."</p> </blockquote> <p class="indent"><span class="smcap">Oliver Boringdon</span> held in his hand the West @@ -12860,7 +12820,7 @@ to begin."</p> the beautiful room where Barbara now lay, in the immense canopied bed, her left shoulder and arm outlined by a wicker cage-like arrangement. Her hair was -concealed by a white hood, Léonie's handiwork, and, +concealed by a white hood, Léonie's handiwork, and, as Lucy drew near, she lifted her free hand off the embroidered coverlet, and laid it on that of the girl.</p> @@ -13406,7 +13366,7 @@ fashion he made each member of the large household believe that it was by his order and wish that Berwick was so often with his patient, concerning the extent of whose injury many legends grew, for she was only tended -by Scotch Jean, French Léonie, Doctor McKirdy, and—James +by Scotch Jean, French Léonie, Doctor McKirdy, and—James Berwick. And so it was that, as often happens with regard to events which none could have foretold, and which would have been described before they @@ -13604,7 +13564,7 @@ uttered perforce in the presence of Madame Sampiero, Barbara turned her face away to hide her tears.</p> <p class="indent">Almost at once her god-mother asked her, "Would -you not like to go away, with Léonie, to Paris for a few +you not like to go away, with Léonie, to Paris for a few days?" She caught with feverish relief at the proposal; it was good, it was more than kind, of Marraine to suggest so delightful a plan! But she would prefer, honestly so, @@ -13658,7 +13618,7 @@ had been the spoiled darling of Doctor McKirdy, of the grim Scotch nurse, and last, not least, of James Berwick?</p> <p class="indent">There came a knock at the door—a hesitating, low -knock, very unlike that of Jean or Léonie. Barbara +knock, very unlike that of Jean or Léonie. Barbara suddenly felt an odd pang of fear: "Come in," she cried loudly,—what, after all, had she to be afraid of?</p> @@ -13695,7 +13655,7 @@ weeks—without fear of interruption.</p> <p class="indent">As she went quickly down, following Mrs. Turke's ample person, and so through the stone corridors of -what had been the mediæval monastery, Barbara's +what had been the mediæval monastery, Barbara's heart softened strangely. Had he not made this hurried journey to bid her good-bye, God-speed? And she had thought he did not care—</p> @@ -13982,7 +13942,7 @@ consisted of two vast central rooms,—that above the central hall being little more than a loft,—out of which opened smaller apartments, each and all bearing traces of the prodigal wealth and luxurious fancy of that fermier -général into whose acquisitive hands the place had +général into whose acquisitive hands the place had drifted for a while during the last half of the eighteenth century. It was he, doubtless, who had added the painted ceilings, the panels which Berwick's father @@ -14009,7 +13969,7 @@ the first year, their baby daughter. The stories the Lecerfs had to tell of that time lost nothing in the telling!</p> -<p class="indent">Mère Lecerf—a name generic of the soil in that part +<p class="indent">Mère Lecerf—a name generic of the soil in that part of Northern France—knew very little of her present employer, saving the agreeable fact that he must be very rich. She was quite unaware that he was a @@ -14052,16 +14012,16 @@ greatest of Flemish printers.</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Avoir une maison, commode, propre, et belle,</span> -<span class="i0">Un jardin tapissé d'espaliers odorans,</span> +<span class="i0">Un jardin tapissé d'espaliers odorans,</span> <span class="i0">Des fruits, d'excellent vin, peu de train, peu d'enfants,</span> -<span class="i0">Posséder seul sans bruit une femme fidèle.</span> +<span class="i0">Posséder seul sans bruit une femme fidèle.</span> </div> <div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"N'avoir dettes, amour, ni procès, ni querelle,</span> -<span class="i0">Ni de partage à faire avecque ses parens,</span> -<span class="i0">Se contenter de peu, n'espérer rien des Grands,</span> -<span class="i0">Régler tous ses desseins sur un juste modèle.</span> +<span class="i0">"N'avoir dettes, amour, ni procès, ni querelle,</span> +<span class="i0">Ni de partage à faire avecque ses parens,</span> +<span class="i0">Se contenter de peu, n'espérer rien des Grands,</span> +<span class="i0">Régler tous ses desseins sur un juste modèle.</span> </div> </div> @@ -14070,8 +14030,8 @@ greatest of Flemish printers.</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Vivre avecque franchise et sans ambition,</span> -<span class="i0">S'adonner sans scrupule à la dévotion,</span> -<span class="i0">Domter ses passions, les rendre obéissantes.</span> +<span class="i0">S'adonner sans scrupule à la dévotion,</span> +<span class="i0">Domter ses passions, les rendre obéissantes.</span> </div> <div class="stanza"> @@ -14225,13 +14185,13 @@ life worth living.</p> <p class="indent">Slowly he made his way back to the Pavilion du Dauphin, there to set himself grimly to do all that was possible to make his decision, if not irrevocable, then -most difficult of revocation. Mère Lecerf was abruptly +most difficult of revocation. Mère Lecerf was abruptly told that as her master must leave the hunting lodge that night she must arrange to come and sleep there, in order that "Madame" should not be alone in the solitary building. But that, as Berwick well knew, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page353" id="page353"></a>[pg 353]</span> -was by no means enough, for Mère Lecerf would +was by no means enough, for Mère Lecerf would acquiesce in any change of plan with joyful alacrity.</p> <p class="indent">So it was that six o'clock saw him passing into the @@ -14283,7 +14243,7 @@ that he would wish to work her any ill—</p> station-master, who knew the owner of the Pavillon du Dauphin, looked with curiosity at the man and woman now going towards one another. The information given -to Mère Lecerf had already reached him, "Cold types, +to Mère Lecerf had already reached him, "Cold types, these English!" but he cheered up when he saw Berwick suddenly bend down and kiss each of the traveller's pale cheeks, in French husbandly fashion. @@ -14439,7 +14399,7 @@ goodness to your poor Barbara."</p> <hr /> <p class="indent">An hour later Berwick was driving away from the -Pavillon du Dauphin, not to the station as Mère Lecerf +Pavillon du Dauphin, not to the station as Mère Lecerf <span class="pagenum"><a name="page358" id="page358"></a>[pg 358]</span> believed, but to St. Germains, within easy, tantalising distance of the woman he had just left,—a very tearful, @@ -14928,7 +14888,7 @@ beating heart for any unwonted sound, but none broke across the May night, and she fell asleep as the birds woke singing.</p> -<p class="indent">At eight in the morning Léonie brought her a note +<p class="indent">At eight in the morning Léonie brought her a note just arrived from Fletchings: "<span class="smcap">Dearest</span>,—Your kind heart will be grieved to learn that my uncle died, quite suddenly, last evening. I nearly came over, then @@ -15179,7 +15139,7 @@ white gown and a hat. And who else do you think were there? Mrs. Turke—it's the first time to my <span class="pagenum"><a name="page377" id="page377"></a>[pg 377]</span> knowledge that she's been in that church for years—the -Scotchwoman, Jean, the French maid Léonie, and the +Scotchwoman, Jean, the French maid Léonie, and the butler McGregor! Mrs. Turke wore a pale blue watered silk dress and a pink bonnet; she cried, it seems, so loudly that Mr. Sampson became quite confused——"</p> @@ -15357,400 +15317,25 @@ as "repeated".</p> <p class="indent">On page 279, "which he had been listening the last three hours.to" was replaced with "to which he had been listening the last three hours.".</p> -<p class="indent">On page 300, "L'orgueil, reméde souverain, qui n'est pas à l'usage des -âmes endres." was replaced with "L'orgueil, remède souverain, qui n'est -pas à l'usage des âmes tendres."</p> +<p class="indent">On page 300, "L'orgueil, reméde souverain, qui n'est pas à l'usage des +âmes endres." was replaced with "L'orgueil, remède souverain, qui n'est +pas à l'usage des âmes tendres."</p> <p class="indent">Oh page 310, a comma was placed after "again repeated".</p> <p class="indent">On page 321, a period was placed after "night". "to which he had been listening the last three hours.".</p> -<p class="indent">On page 300, "L'orgueil, reméde souverain, qui n'est pas à l'usage des -âmes endres." was replaced with "L'orgueil, remède souverain, qui n'est -pas à l'usage des âmes tendres."</p> +<p class="indent">On page 300, "L'orgueil, reméde souverain, qui n'est pas à l'usage des +âmes endres." was replaced with "L'orgueil, remède souverain, qui n'est +pas à l'usage des âmes tendres."</p> <p class="indent">Oh page 310, a comma was placed after "again repeated".</p> <p class="indent">On page 321, a period was placed after "night".</p> </div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Barbara Rebell, by Marie Belloc Lowndes - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BARBARA REBELL *** - -***** This file should be named 42462-h.htm or 42462-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/4/6/42462/ - -Produced by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -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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