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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 <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p>Title: Happy House</p> -<p>Author: Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg</p> -<p>Release Date: May 22, 2013 [eBook #42771]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPY HOUSE***</p> <p> </p> -<h4>E-text prepared by Annie McGuire<br /> - from page images generously made available by the<br /> - Google Books Library Project<br /> - (<a href="http://books.google.com">http://books.google.com</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -238,9 +224,9 @@ cheery cheekiness. After a moment he went into the passage and thrust his head into the open drawing-room door. The room was filled with flowers, and though the windows were wide open, it smelt close, as if it had already been full of people. The walls were covered with pink and -white moiré paper, whose shiny surface was broken by various pictures. +white moiré paper, whose shiny surface was broken by various pictures. Watts's "Hope" in a gilt frame dominated the mantelpiece; a copy of "The -Fighting Téméraire" faced it, and there were a good many photographs +Fighting Téméraire" faced it, and there were a good many photographs elaborately framed, grouped, like little families, in clusters. Between the windows hung an old, faded photogravure of "The Soul's Awakening," and "Alone at Last" revealed its artless passion over a walnut @@ -600,7 +586,7 @@ body and soul to the Philistines. She hadn't even an artistic uncle clinging to the uttermost skirts of the pre-Raphaelites to lighten her darkness, and, behold, when she had made it, her little kingdom looked good to her. She settled down light-heartedly and without misgivings, to -her quadruple rôle of wife, mother, housekeeper and writer. She had no +her quadruple rôle of wife, mother, housekeeper and writer. She had no doubt, the delicate little creature of twenty, but that she could "manage" and she had been managing ever since. She managed to write those flowery sentimental books of hers in a room full of crawling, @@ -741,17 +727,17 @@ has a happy ending. I wish I had such a gift.</p> <p><i>January 13th</i>, 1896.—Just had a long talk with poor Ferdie. He is really very unlucky. Had his pocket picked on his way home from the city -yesterday with £86 15s. 4d. in his purse. Does not wish to tell poor +yesterday with £86 15s. 4d. in his purse. Does not wish to tell poor Violet. It would distress her so. He had bought some shares in some kind of mineral—I forget the name—and they had gone up, and he had been planning to buy her a new coat and skirt, and a hat, and lovely presents for all the children. He's such a kind man. He was even going to buy six pairs of gloves for me. The disappointment is almost more than he can bear. Sometimes I think Violet is rather hard on him. I couldn't bear to -see him so disappointed, so I am lending him £50 out of the Post Office +see him so disappointed, so I am lending him £50 out of the Post Office Savings Bank. He's going to pay me six per cent. It's better than I can get in any other <i>safe</i> investment. He's to pay me at midsummer. -<i>N.B.</i>—That makes £60.</p> +<i>N.B.</i>—That makes £60.</p> <p><i>February 12th</i>, 1896.—Paul's birthday. Went to tea to "Happy House." Violet made a beautiful cake with white icing, and had squeezed little @@ -1479,7 +1465,7 @@ being the beauty, and Maud, "my eldest girl," while Paul was artistic.</p> <p>There had been scrapes in Guy's early days (he was only twenty-one now). Certainly his tendencies had been inherited from his father—full grown -cap-â-pie tendencies they were, sprung whole, it seemed, from Ferdie's +cap-â-pie tendencies they were, sprung whole, it seemed, from Ferdie's brain, as Pallas Athene sprang from her father, Zeus's. The boy was fond of billiards and devoted to horses, and there had been a time—a very tragic time—when he had shown signs of being too fond of whisky and @@ -2011,7 +1997,7 @@ down her cup of cocoa with a little sigh. Ridiculous to think about that kind of thing when she only had one hundred and eighty pounds in the bank.</p> -<p>Then she read a few pages of "Thomas à Kempis," turned out her light, +<p>Then she read a few pages of "Thomas à Kempis," turned out her light, and lay still in the dark waiting for sleep.</p> <hr class="chap" /> @@ -2967,7 +2953,7 @@ he'll go back to the City. Mr. McCormick promised to take him back, but I don't know—he hasn't said anything about it. I'll get his letter."</p> <p>They went upstairs to the girl's room, for Paul had long since -established his æsthetic inability to sit in "the mausoleum," as he +established his æsthetic inability to sit in "the mausoleum," as he called the drawing-room, and there,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> among the pretty modern knick-knacks and pictures, the mother read her soldier son's letter.</p> @@ -3050,7 +3036,7 @@ back.</p> <p>"Francine, you mean"—he laughed with a little sneer, "what about her? The youth seems to be making his soul in earnest, but I have my doubts -as to whether the lady will be satisfied with the rôle he offers her."</p> +as to whether the lady will be satisfied with the rôle he offers her."</p> <p>"Oh, shut up, Paul, you're a cat," Hermione almost snapped, in her unusual vehemence. "Unless, I am very much mistaken you liked the girl @@ -4097,7 +4083,7 @@ things of a showy and convivial nature. The quarterly gas bill was still unpaid, and he was having serious trouble with his tailor, but he had sent in a case of champagne, and a box of the best cigars money could buy, and all sorts of impressive, though unnecessary dainties, such as -caviare, pâté de foie, brandied cherries, oysters and so on, besides a +caviare, pâté de foie, brandied cherries, oysters and so on, besides a fifteen-pound turkey, which quite put out of joint, as Grisel expressed it, "the pope's nose of the poor little eleven-pounder mother had bought for the occasion."</p> @@ -4178,7 +4164,7 @@ books that would not be better for a little judicious paring down."</p> as a parer?"</p> <p>Collier glared at her, and Paul who, for some reason, had hardly taken -his eyes off his red-headed <i>vis-à-vis</i>, gave a sudden laugh, although +his eyes off his red-headed <i>vis-à -vis</i>, gave a sudden laugh, although he had had no intention of doing so.</p> <p>"I like your sister," Maud Twiss said pleasantly, turning to Oliver, and @@ -4457,7 +4443,7 @@ Campden Hill, where, also, Maud and her husband and little Hilary were present—Violet Walbridge achieved the business talk with her husband that she had had in her mind ever since his return, and which, in some way difficult to define, he seemed to be trying to escape. It was late, -in the afternoon of Boxing Day, and the others had gone to a matinée, +in the afternoon of Boxing Day, and the others had gone to a matinée, and he was to dine with the Crichells and go to a play in the evening. He was resting. He seemed to rest a good deal lately, she noticed, and when she had asked Grisel that morning if it seemed to her to mean that @@ -4798,7 +4784,7 @@ a few days, in order that her novel might progress satisfactorily.</p> <p>"You ought to work regularly," Paul explained. It was Sunday morning, and he looked very smart, turned out as he was for a luncheon party after church parade. "Collier does. And I met Miss Potter, who writes -about mediæval Constantinople—her books sell enormously—and she told +about mediæval Constantinople—her books sell enormously—and she told me that she writes as regularly as she eats her meals—two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. That's what keeps her brain so fresh."</p> @@ -4986,7 +4972,7 @@ Sir John was going to Argentina as soon as the authorities would let him, it seemed, and wanted the wedding to be in September, immediately after he returned.</p> -<p>"I was awfully afraid," the girl added naïvely, "that he was going to +<p>"I was awfully afraid," the girl added naïvely, "that he was going to marry me now, and take me with him to South America."</p> <p>Her mother sipped her cocoa reflectively, and did not raise the question @@ -5708,7 +5694,7 @@ woman, my dear. I've a very great admiration for her."</p> <p>Griselda loved her mother; most girls do love their mothers, but this homage, from a man she admired and respected so much, surprised her.</p> -<p>"Mother? Little old Mum?" she repeated naïvely. "She's a dear, of +<p>"Mother? Little old Mum?" she repeated naïvely. "She's a dear, of course——"</p> <p>Barclay looked down at her.</p> @@ -6108,7 +6094,7 @@ a pathetic strip of merino petticoat.</p> <p>"Something's wrong with your back here," he said. "Shall I hook it up? I often fasten Jenny's new-fangled things, and they hook up to her neck. -Well, here I am, Mrs. Walbridge, <i>à la disposition di Usted</i>."</p> +Well, here I am, Mrs. Walbridge, <i>à la disposition di Usted</i>."</p> <p>One of his useful little gifts was a way of keeping in mind, and reproducing with impeccable inflection, little once-heard scraps of @@ -6610,7 +6596,7 @@ young man and his hostess to each other, but "Mossioo Latour," as Mrs. Walbridge laboriously called him, waved aside his offered aid with a cigarette-stained, magnanimous hand.</p> -<p>"Mais non, mais non, mêlez vous de vos affaires, mon cher," he +<p>"Mais non, mais non, mêlez vous de vos affaires, mon cher," he protested, "Nous nous entendons parfaitement bien, n'est-ce pas, Madame Vollbridge?"</p> @@ -6790,7 +6776,7 @@ thoughtfully, "be able to dress poor Dorothy like that."</p> <p>"Oh, go on," she said, "with your Dorothy."</p> -<p>He rose, and did a few steps of the "Bacchanal à la Mordkin," whistling +<p>He rose, and did a few steps of the "Bacchanal à la Mordkin," whistling the music through his teeth. "Speak not, oh aged one," he then cried, striking an attitude,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span> "with disrespect of the moon-faced and altogether irreproachable Dorothy."</p> @@ -7238,7 +7224,7 @@ statues which Mrs. Walbridge was making a point of seeing. It was plainly a surprise to her that this had turned out to be not altogether an unpleasant fulfilment of duty.</p> -<p>"'<i>I really love some of the pictures</i>,' she explained<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span> naïvely, '<i>and I +<p>"'<i>I really love some of the pictures</i>,' she explained<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span> naïvely, '<i>and I almost forgot to come home for lunch the day I went to the Luxembourg. Some day I shall try to make time to go to the National Gallery.</i>'"</p> @@ -8246,7 +8232,7 @@ a couple of nights, but they could not put me up."</p> non-arrival of the travellers. Paul, who was in good form and the happy temper that Jenny Wick's presence always produced in him, did most of the talking, for he was intensely interested in a lot of new songs, -Russian and Spanish, that he had just got and, with the naïvete that was +Russian and Spanish, that he had just got and, with the naïvete that was in his case, as it so often is, only a form of selfishness, he assumed that everyone else was as deeply interested as he was.</p> @@ -8718,7 +8704,7 @@ most perfect of sons. Barclay envied her.</p> bow and arrow I killed cock sparrow of British clothes and unselfish indifference! Wait till you see the evening dress we got. My word! And there's a tea-gown. We had a most unseemly scene over that tea-gown; -nearly came to blows, didn't we, <i>petite mère</i>?"</p> +nearly came to blows, didn't we, <i>petite mère</i>?"</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg 273]</a></span></p> @@ -8735,7 +8721,7 @@ momentary pause, during which he bit his lip, he went on in an injured voice, "What is the matter? <i>Aren't</i> you going to be married? I certainly am! I was going to say, when we are <i>all</i> married I can tell my wife about our dreadful scenes in the lingerie shop and <i>chez la -corsetière</i>. Oh, la, la!"</p> +corsetière</i>. Oh, la, la!"</p> <p>"Oh, la, la."</p> @@ -8835,7 +8821,7 @@ a faltering voice. "Oh, Paul, I don't want her to go so soon."</p> was very late getting back to-night, and he picked me up at the corner in his car and showed me the letter. He didn't exactly suggest it, in fact, I rather think it was I who asked him if he would not be wanting -her to marry him at once under the circumstances, but I'd like to bet £5 +her to marry him at once under the circumstances, but I'd like to bet £5 on his doing it at this moment out there in the rain."</p> <p>As he spoke they heard the outside door closing again, and after a @@ -9980,360 +9966,6 @@ shut the door.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> -<hr class="full" /> -<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPY HOUSE***</p> -<p>******* This file should be named 42771-h.txt or 42771-h.zip *******</p> -<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/2/7/7/42771">http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/7/7/42771</a></p> -<p> -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed.</p> - -<p> -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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