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diff --git a/66678-0.txt b/66678-0.txt index 4d648af..6b0005d 100644 --- a/66678-0.txt +++ b/66678-0.txt @@ -2721,7 +2721,7 @@ of attachment. We had no sooner set foot on shore, than my companions and myself were conducted to the palace of the bashaw Soliman, where a Christian -secretary; questioning us individually one after another, inquired +secretary, questioning us individually one after another, inquired into our names, our ages, our country, our religion, and our qualifications. Then Mahomet, presenting me to the bashaw, paid my voice more compliments than it deserved, and told him that I played @@ -3227,7 +3227,7 @@ because you have given a box on the ear to an actress, but for your failure in respect to your master and mistress, in having presumed to interrupt the progress of the play in their presence. -This decision Was a bitter pill for me to swallow. It was high +This decision was a bitter pill for me to swallow. It was high treason against my histrionic majesty, that the German was not turned off on the ground of having insulted me. It seemed difficult to conceive the possibility of a greater crime than that of insulting a @@ -3274,7 +3274,7 @@ make up my mind on the subject. In this interval, I made inquiries about the gentleman; and hearing a good character of him, notwithstanding the deranged state of his finances, it was my determination to marry him without more ado, so that the -preliminaries Were soon ratified by a definitive treaty. +preliminaries were soon ratified by a definitive treaty. Don Manuel de Xerica--for that was my husband's name--took me immediately after the ceremony to his castle, which had an air of @@ -6777,7 +6777,7 @@ her little comforts about her, without deviating from the line of her duty. If she is discreet,--by which we mean that she should not admit more than one lover into her good graces at a time,--her exemplary conduct is cried up as without a parallel. She is called a -very Niobe for her coldness; and when she changes her favorite, ahe +very Niobe for her coldness; and when she changes her favorite, she is reprimanded as slightly by the world as a lawful widow who marries a few weeks too soon after the death of her first husband. If, however, the widow should look for luck in odd numbers, and take to diff --git a/66678-h/66678-h.htm b/66678-h/66678-h.htm index b93f96f..84b0b93 100644 --- a/66678-h/66678-h.htm +++ b/66678-h/66678-h.htm @@ -1,24 +1,19 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> +<!DOCTYPE html> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<link rel="icon" href="images/img-cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover" /> +<link rel="icon" href="images/img-cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover" > -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> +<meta charset="utf-8"> -<title> -The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gil Blas, Volume II, by Alain René le Sage -</title> +<title>Gil Blas, Volume II | Project Gutenberg</title> -<style type="text/css"> -body { color: black; - background: white; - margin-right: 10%; - margin-left: 10%; - font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; +<style> +body { margin-right: 10%; + margin-left: 10%; + font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify } p {text-indent: 4% } @@ -66,14 +61,14 @@ h3 { text-align: center } h4 { text-align: center } h5 { text-align: center } -p.poem {text-indent: 0%; +p.poem {text-indent: 0%; margin-left: 10%; } p.thought {text-indent: 0% ; letter-spacing: 4em ; text-align: center } -p.letter {text-indent: 0%; +p.letter {text-indent: 0%; margin-left: 10% ; margin-right: 10% } @@ -108,19 +103,19 @@ p.finis { font-size: larger ; margin-left: 0% ; margin-right: 0% } -p.capcenter { margin-left: 0; +p.capcenter { margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0 ; - margin-bottom: .5% ; - margin-top: 0; + margin-bottom: .5% ; + margin-top: 0; font-weight: bold; float: none ; clear: both ; - text-indent: 0%; + text-indent: 0%; text-align: center } -img.imgcenter { margin-left: auto; - margin-bottom: 0; - margin-top: 1%; +img.imgcenter { margin-left: auto; + margin-bottom: 0; + margin-top: 1%; margin-right: auto; } </style> @@ -130,68 +125,68 @@ img.imgcenter { margin-left: auto; <body> <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 66678 ***</div> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <p class="t3b"> - ALAIN RENÉ LE SAGE<br /> + ALAIN RENÉ LE SAGE<br > </p> <h1> -<br /><br /> - THE ADVENTURES<br /> -<br /> - OF<br /> -<br /> - GIL BLAS<br /> -<br /> - OF SANTILLANE<br /> +<br ><br > + THE ADVENTURES<br > +<br > + OF<br > +<br > + GIL BLAS<br > +<br > + OF SANTILLANE<br > </h1> -<p><br /></p> +<p><br ></p> <p class="t4"> - TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY TOBIAS SMOLLETT<br /> + TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY TOBIAS SMOLLETT<br > </p> -<p><br /></p> +<p><br ></p> <p class="t3"> - PRECEDED BY<br /> -<br /> - <i>A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICE OF LE SAGE</i><br /> -<br /> - BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY<br /> + PRECEDED BY<br > +<br > + <i>A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICE OF LE SAGE</i><br > +<br > + BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY<br > </p> -<p><br /></p> +<p><br ></p> <p class="t4"> - With Twelve Original Etchings by R. de Los Rios<br /> + With Twelve Original Etchings by R. de Los Rios<br > </p> -<p><br /></p> +<p><br ></p> <p class="t3"> - <i>IN THREE VOLUMES—VOL. II.</i><br /> + <i>IN THREE VOLUMES—VOL. II.</i><br > </p> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <p class="t3"> - LONDON<br /> - J. C. NIMMO AND BAIN<br /> - 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.<br /> - NEW YORK: SCRIBNER, WELFORD & CO.<br /> - 1881<br /> + LONDON<br > + J. C. NIMMO AND BAIN<br > + 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.<br > + NEW YORK: SCRIBNER, WELFORD & CO.<br > + 1881<br > </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p class="t3b"> CONTENTS OF VOL. II. </p> -<p><br /></p> +<p><br ></p> <p class="t3b"> BOOK THE FOURTH—CONTINUED. @@ -241,7 +236,7 @@ The old Hermit turns out an extraordinary Genius, and Gil Blas finds himself among his former Acquaintance. </p> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <p class="t3b"> BOOK THE FIFTH @@ -264,7 +259,7 @@ Don Raphael's Consultation with his Company, and their Adventures as they were preparing to leave the Wood. </p> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <p class="t3b"> BOOK THE SIXTH. @@ -299,7 +294,7 @@ Delight of Don Alphonso. Gil Blas meets with an Adventure, which places him all at once in a very superior Situation. </p> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <p class="t3b"> BOOK THE SEVENTH. @@ -452,7 +447,7 @@ Lordship's Affliction on that Occasion. The Illness of Gil Blas, and its Consequences. </p> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <p class="t3b"> BOOK THE EIGHTH. @@ -525,7 +520,7 @@ Introduction to the Trade of Office, and an Account of the Profit accruing therefrom. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0407"></a></p> @@ -533,13 +528,13 @@ accruing therefrom. HISTORY OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE. </p> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <h2> BOOK THE FOURTH.—(CONTINUED). </h2> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <h3> <i>CHAPTER VII.</i> @@ -1129,7 +1124,7 @@ and found myself, I scarcely knew how, established in another household. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0408"></a></p> @@ -1407,7 +1402,7 @@ not in all ages and countries been exempt from the credulity of their inferiors. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0409"></a></p> @@ -1637,7 +1632,7 @@ are betrayed. On this assurance the cavalier began his story. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0410"></a></p> @@ -1784,8 +1779,8 @@ insolent demand. <p class="capcenter"> <a id="img-044"></a> -<img class="imgcenter" src="images/img-044.png" alt="Don Alphonso and Baron Steinbach" /> -<br /> +<img class="imgcenter" src="images/img-044.png" alt="Don Alphonso and Baron Steinbach"> +<br > Don Alphonso and Baron Steinbach </p> @@ -2351,7 +2346,7 @@ of my absence and distraction. I beseech you to assist me with your counsels. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0411"></a></p> @@ -2605,7 +2600,7 @@ Don Raphael began the narrative of his adventures in these terms. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0501"></a></p> @@ -2613,7 +2608,7 @@ in these terms. BOOK THE FIFTH. </h2> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <h3> <i>CHAPTER I.</i> @@ -2959,8 +2954,8 @@ with a simile. </p> <p class="poem"> - Not half so keen, fierce vultures of the chase<br /> - Stoop from the mountains on the feathered race, &c.<br /> + Not half so keen, fierce vultures of the chase<br > + Stoop from the mountains on the feathered race, &c.<br > </p> <p class="noindent"> @@ -4038,7 +4033,7 @@ these thundering demonstrations of attachment. <p> We had no sooner set foot on shore, than my companions and myself were conducted to the palace -of the bashaw Soliman, where a Christian secretary; +of the bashaw Soliman, where a Christian secretary, questioning us individually one after another, inquired into our names, our ages, our country, our religion, and our qualifications. Then Mahomet, @@ -4315,7 +4310,7 @@ Christians in the world, who have been guilty of apostatizing on less imminent emergencies! </p> -<p><br /></p> +<p><br ></p> <p class="footnote"> [*] These wandering priests are at present known in Africa by the @@ -4323,7 +4318,7 @@ name of Marabut. The first gymnosophists of Ethiopia most probably were nothing more.—TRANSLATOR. </p> -<p><br /></p> +<p><br ></p> <p> After the ceremony, I took my leave of the seraglio, @@ -4743,7 +4738,7 @@ play in their presence. </p> <p> -This decision Was a bitter pill for me to swallow. +This decision was a bitter pill for me to swallow. It was high treason against my histrionic majesty, that the German was not turned off on the ground of having insulted me. It seemed difficult to @@ -4807,7 +4802,7 @@ on the subject. In this interval, I made inquiries about the gentleman; and hearing a good character of him, notwithstanding the deranged state of his finances, it was my determination to marry him -without more ado, so that the preliminaries Were soon +without more ado, so that the preliminaries were soon ratified by a definitive treaty. </p> @@ -6282,7 +6277,7 @@ presence, which occasioned us to take so abrupt a leave of our solitary dwelling. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0502"></a></p> @@ -6376,8 +6371,8 @@ heard. <p class="capcenter"> <a id="img-179"></a> -<img class="imgcenter" src="images/img-179.png" alt="Thieves in forest" /> -<br /> +<img class="imgcenter" src="images/img-179.png" alt="Thieves in forest"> +<br > Thieves in forest </p> @@ -6506,7 +6501,7 @@ head and ears in love with Seraphina, she was equally out of her depth in the same passion. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0601"></a></p> @@ -6514,7 +6509,7 @@ equally out of her depth in the same passion. BOOK THE SIXTH. </h2> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <h3> <i>CHAPTER I.</i> @@ -7021,8 +7016,8 @@ one's trade. <p class="capcenter"> <a id="img-198"></a> -<img class="imgcenter" src="images/img-198.png" alt="Samuel Simon's money chest" /> -<br /> +<img class="imgcenter" src="images/img-198.png" alt="Samuel Simon's money chest"> +<br > Samuel Simon's money chest </p> @@ -7053,7 +7048,7 @@ with many a pious ejaculation to the god Mercury, on the happy issue of so bold an attempt. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0602"></a></p> @@ -7233,7 +7228,7 @@ the next morning, after having made an equal division of our cash, and pushed on towards Valencia. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0603"></a></p> @@ -7387,7 +7382,7 @@ out of a thousand think it double trouble, and excuse themselves. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0701"></a></p> @@ -7395,7 +7390,7 @@ excuse themselves. BOOK THE SEVENTH. </h2> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <h3> <i>CHAPTER I.</i> @@ -7859,7 +7854,7 @@ exact account of my receipts and disbursements during the time of my stewardship. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0702"></a></p> @@ -8204,7 +8199,7 @@ that we are not to wonder if this world abounds in a description of people called hypocrites. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0703"></a></p> @@ -8278,7 +8273,7 @@ of you, </p> <p class="t3"> - Bœotum in crasso jurares aëre natum.<br /> + Bœotum in crasso jurares aëre natum.<br > </p> <p class="noindent"> @@ -8533,7 +8528,7 @@ preferred to the living of Gabia, a large market town in the neighborhood of Grenada. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0704"></a></p> @@ -8734,7 +8729,7 @@ do well in the world! There is nothing to stand in your way but the want of a little better taste. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0705"></a></p> @@ -8928,7 +8923,7 @@ the Sabine farm! Be sure they are rich, genuine, and old, or they will be a farce to Falernian. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0706"></a></p> @@ -9292,7 +9287,7 @@ she slaked mine, by communicating the particulars of her eventful life to the following effect. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0707"></a></p> @@ -9761,7 +9756,7 @@ which we mean that she should not admit more than one lover into her good graces at a time,—her exemplary conduct is cried up as without a parallel. She is called a very Niobe for her coldness; and -when she changes her favorite, ahe is reprimanded +when she changes her favorite, she is reprimanded as slightly by the world as a lawful widow who marries a few weeks too soon after the death of her first husband. If, however, the widow should look @@ -10044,7 +10039,7 @@ one another, and put a good face upon it into the bargain. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0708"></a></p> @@ -10216,7 +10211,7 @@ whither I reckoned on repairing every day, since my master had no regular establishment. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0709"></a></p> @@ -10375,7 +10370,7 @@ descend in better humor from the garret of another foolish woman who had told her fortune. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0710"></a></p> @@ -10568,7 +10563,7 @@ reasons which will be methodically stated in the succeeding chapter. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0711"></a></p> @@ -10739,7 +10734,7 @@ by the hand, and introduced me to a higher cast of parts than those I had hitherto filled. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0712"></a></p> @@ -11147,7 +11142,7 @@ town, and went off again for New Castille with a balance of some few pistoles in his favor. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0713"></a></p> @@ -11685,7 +11680,7 @@ the barber's escutcheon, who had the honor to call him father. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0714"></a></p> @@ -11886,7 +11881,7 @@ the private transactions of the family were very serious. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0715"></a></p> @@ -12179,7 +12174,7 @@ master saved at least three thousand ducats by my thrift. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0716"></a></p> @@ -12562,7 +12557,7 @@ rightly considered, was only to be hailed as the harbinger of approaching prosperity. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0801"></a></p> @@ -12570,7 +12565,7 @@ harbinger of approaching prosperity. BOOK THE EIGHTH. </h2> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <h3> <i>CHAPTER I.</i> @@ -12858,7 +12853,7 @@ fire, nor the high character he had heard of me, nominated me to succeed to the post in question. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0802"></a></p> @@ -13008,8 +13003,8 @@ half your trials. <p class="capcenter"> <a id="img-367"></a> -<img class="imgcenter" src="images/img-367.png" alt="Gil Blas and the Duke of Lerma" /> -<br /> +<img class="imgcenter" src="images/img-367.png" alt="Gil Blas and the Duke of Lerma"> +<br > Gil Blas and the Duke of Lerma </p> @@ -13114,7 +13109,7 @@ ambition in my soul, which put forth shoots like a plantation in a fat and unvexed soil. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0803"></a></p> @@ -13327,7 +13322,7 @@ own dependence on making my ground sure with the duke, by the benefit of our frequent conferences. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0804"></a></p> @@ -13447,7 +13442,7 @@ harmonious visions, my fifths and octaves were but little untuned by the sensible declension of my purse. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0805"></a></p> @@ -13655,7 +13650,7 @@ whither the king and the Prince of Spain removed some days afterwards. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0806"></a></p> @@ -13910,7 +13905,7 @@ that his own regard for me would always be proportionate. </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ></p> <p><a id="chap0807"></a></p> @@ -14038,22 +14033,23 @@ to be sincere in his representation, and began his narrative in the following words. </p> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <p class="t3"> END OF VOL. II. </p> -<p><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ></p> <p class="t4"> BALLANTYNE AND HANSON, EDINBURGH -<br /> +<br > CHANDOS STREET; LONDON </p> -<p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p> +<p><br ><br ><br ><br ></p> <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 66678 ***</div> </body> </html> + |