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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TARZAN OF THE APES *** +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78 *** [Illustration] @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ edging along until close to Clayton he said, in an undertone: “What do you mean, my good fellow?” asked Clayton. “Wy, hasn’t ye seen wats goin’ on? Hasn’t ye ’eard that devil’s spawn -of a capting an’ is mates knockin’ the bloomin’ lights outen ’arf the +of a capting an’ ’is mates knockin’ the bloomin’ lights outen ’arf the crew? “Two busted ’eads yeste’day, an’ three to-day. Black Michael’s as good @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ fairly purple of face, and he shrieked the last words at the top of his voice, emphasizing his remarks by a loud thumping of the table with one huge fist, and shaking the other in Clayton’s face. -Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eying the excited man with +Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eyeing the excited man with level gaze. “Captain Billings,” he drawled finally, “if you will pardon my candor, @@ -2329,7 +2329,7 @@ Standing erect he threw his head far back and looking full into the eye of the rising moon he beat upon his breast with his great hairy paws and emitted his fearful roaring shriek. -One—twice—thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming +Once—twice—thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming solitude of that unspeakably quick, yet unthinkably dead, world. Then, crouching, Kerchak slunk noiselessly around the open circle, @@ -2401,7 +2401,7 @@ slashed off a more generous portion than he had hoped for, an entire hairy forearm, where it protruded from beneath the feet of the mighty Kerchak, who was so busily engaged in perpetuating the royal prerogative of gluttony that he failed to note the act of -_lese-majesté_. +_lèse-majesté_. So little Tarzan wriggled out from beneath the struggling mass, clutching his grisly prize close to his breast. @@ -7420,7 +7420,7 @@ little bower he had erected, motioned her to go within. For the first time in hours a feeling of fear swept over her, and Tarzan felt her draw away as though shrinking from him. -Contact with this girl for half a day had left a very diferent Tarzan +Contact with this girl for half a day had left a very different Tarzan from the one on whom the morning’s sun had risen. Now, in every fiber of his being, heredity spoke louder than training. @@ -8285,10 +8285,9 @@ from the jungle, the love note signed by Tarzan of the Apes. Who could be this new suitor? If he were another of the wild denizens of this terrible forest what might he not do to claim her? -“Esmeralda! Wake up,” she cried. - -“You make me so irritable, sleeping there peacefully when you know -perfectly well that the world is filled with sorrow.” +“Esmeralda! Wake up,” she cried. “You make me so irritable, sleeping +there peacefully when you know perfectly well that the world is filled +with sorrow.” “Gaberelle!” screamed Esmeralda, sitting up. “What is it now? A hipponocerous? Where is he, Miss Jane?” @@ -9415,7 +9414,7 @@ minutes. “Well! Tarzan of the Apes, what think you?” asked D’Arnot. “Does not this little book clear up the mystery of your parentage? -“Why man, you are Lord Greystoke.” +“Why, man, you are Lord Greystoke.” “The book speaks of but one child,” he replied. “Its little skeleton lay in the crib, where it died crying for nourishment, from the first @@ -10319,7 +10318,7 @@ where a mighty wall of roaring flames shut out the view. “Leave my car here. If I find Miss Porter we shall need it. If I don’t, no one will need it. Do as I say,” as Clayton hesitated, and then they -saw the lithe figure bound away cross the clearing toward the northwest +saw the lithe figure bound away across the clearing toward the northwest where the forest still stood, untouched by flame. In each rose the unaccountable feeling that a great responsibility had @@ -10431,9 +10430,8 @@ that and it would be burned out. “I was nursing D’Arnot. He was badly wounded.” -“Ah, I knew it!” she exclaimed. - -“They said you had gone to join the blacks—that they were your people.” +“Ah, I knew it!” she exclaimed. “They said you had gone to join the +blacks—that they were your people.” He laughed. @@ -11007,6 +11005,4 @@ FURTHER ADVENTURES OF LORD GREYSTOKE READ THE RETURN OF TARZAN - - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TARZAN OF THE APES *** +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78 *** |