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diff --git a/75733-h/75733-h.htm b/75733-h/75733-h.htm index 0b084a9..8bda5d7 100644 --- a/75733-h/75733-h.htm +++ b/75733-h/75733-h.htm @@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ body { margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; - font-size:12.0pt; - font-family:"Verdana"; } p {text-indent: 2em;} @@ -884,7 +882,7 @@ began to be very sensible how naughty I had been in opening the door. I bathed my eyes and dressed myself neatly, and we set out on our walk, Rose carrying a basket containing our lunch.</p> -<p>The carding-machine was nearly half a mile may. We went, not by the +<p>The carding-machine was nearly half a mile away. We went, not by the road, which was warm and dusty, but "across lots," down to the river, and then along the bank, where grew many fine elms, all run over and tangled together by wild vines. Rose told me they bore grapes called @@ -924,7 +922,7 @@ nine children out of ten one could tell pretty well what they would do, but I was the tenth, of whom there was no saying how I would take anything. The truth was I had got a great shock which threatened seriously to affect my health. I moped about and could not eat, and -every little thing made the cry, which was very uncommon with me. +every little thing made me cry, which was very uncommon with me. I could not bear to see a dog, and I hated the very sight of good, kind-hearted John Schneider, who had killed Bose. He was one of the Hessian soldiers employed by the English government, and at the @@ -1115,7 +1113,7 @@ remarkable that, though a frail little woman, she kept better order among the big boys and girls who attended at that season than any master had ever been able to do.</p> -<p>Our would have supposed that, her school-duties over, Miss Tempy might +<p>You would have supposed that, her school-duties over, Miss Tempy might have considered herself entitled to rest, but nobody in the whole town was more ready with neighbourly service to the sick and the afflicted; and amid all her other employments she had found time to teach poor @@ -1732,7 +1730,7 @@ thought it necessary to send for the doctor.</p> <p>Doctor Partrige was a tall, large man who always wore knee-breeches and buckles, a dignified wig, and a pair of large silver-framed glasses. My -mina was somewhat divided at the prospect of seeing him; for though I +mind was somewhat divided at the prospect of seeing him; for though I felt it was a dignified distinction to have the doctor all to myself; I did not know what he might do, especially if he should hear that my illness had been brought on by my own naughtiness. The doctor was @@ -2090,7 +2088,7 @@ allowed to run about for fear of spoiling them, so there was nothing for it but to sit still in our chairs, look out of the window, and fidget, while our elders did up such work as was absolutely needful. After I learned to read, I used to employ this time in committing to -memory hymns and psalms; and I learned a great deal Of the hymn-book in +memory hymns and psalms; and I learned a great deal of the hymn-book in this way.</p> <p>Before the first bell had done ringing, we were all on our way to @@ -2252,7 +2250,7 @@ out," as Ruth did, I used to brood over and magnify my troubles till they assumed very large proportions.</p> <p>Jeanne's absence from home was a great trouble to me. She was now a -woman grown, and for the last few mouths she had been teaching very +woman grown, and for the last few months she had been teaching very successfully in Cousin Lemuel's district, coming home every other Saturday and returning with Lemuel's family on Sunday afternoon. Ruth was a dear, sunshiny little soul, and I loved her with all my heart, @@ -2670,7 +2668,7 @@ altered fortunes and moralizings on the transitory nature of all earthly prosperity, Mrs. Belinda made a very important proposition: no less than that she should take me into her family for two or three years and give me such an education as would "fit me for any station -in lite, whether I was to reside in the wilds of Vermont or the still +in life, whether I was to reside in the wilds of Vermont or the still more remote and dangerous recesses of the so-called Genesee country, or to shine in Boston society where was to be found as much of mental cultivation mingled with true religion as this continent afforded." |