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<Chapter 1>
<P 11>
The moving was over and done. Professor %St. Peter was
alone in the dismantled house where he had lived ever since
his marriage, where he had worked out his career and brought
up his two daughters. It was almost as ugly as it is
possible for a house to be; square, three stories in height,
painted the colour of ashes--the front porch just too narrow
for comfort, with a slanting floor and sagging steps. As he
walked slowly about the empty, echoing rooms on that bright
September morning, the Professor regarded thoughtfully the
needless inconveniences he had put up with for so long; the
stairs that were too steep, the halls that were too cramped,
the awkward oak mantles with thick round posts crowned by
bumptious wooden balls, over green-tiled fire-places.
Certain wobbly stair treads, certain creaky boards in the
upstairs hall, had made him wince many times a day for
twenty-odd years--and they still creaked and wobbled. He
had a deft hand with tools, he could . . .
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There are 29 script input files for Professor's House.
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CATHER SCRIPT is the driver file.
The project was conceived by the Princeton University
Computer Center. The text was entered in machine-readable
form by the Princeton University Computer Center.
FORMAT OF TEXT FOR ANALYSIS
FORMAT OF TEXT FOR ANALYSIS
1. References
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COCOA format, using < > as delimiters.
<C #> is the chapter number.
<P #> is the page number in the Scripted version of the
text.*
2. Punctuation
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Besides the usual punctuation, -- stands for a long
dash.
3. Emphasis Markers
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! for italic words in the published version.
4. Accent and Pronounciation markers are placed after the
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accented letter.
# indicates (circumflex) hat accent over letter.
+ i . . .
