It will soon be time for Genevieve to leave him; but still he waits; leaning over her, he listens above her gentle breathing to the vague rumour of the town as it begins to shake off its torpor. From the distant barracks a bugle’s call rings out. What! is he going to renounce life? Does he still, for the sake of Genevieve’s esteem (and already he esteems her a little less now that she loves him a little more), does he still think of giving himself up?
A NOTE ON THE TYPE IN WHICH THIS BOOK IS SET
This book is set (on the Linotype) in Elzevir No. 3, a French Old Style. For the modern revival of this excellent face we are indebted to Gustave Mayeur of Paris, who reproduced it in 1878, basing his designs, he says, on types used in a book which was printed by the Elzevirs at Leyden in 1634. The Elzevir family held a distinguished position as printers and publishers for more than a century, their best work appearing between about 1590 and 1680. Although the Elzevirs were not themselves type founders, they utilised the services of the best type designers of their time, notably Van Dijk, Garamond, and Sanlecque. Many of their books were small, or, as we should say now, “pocket” editions, of the classics, and for these volumes they developed a type face which is open and readable but relatively narrow in body, although in no sense condensed, thus permitting a large amount of copy to be set in limited space without impairing legibility.
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FOOTNOTES:
[A] In English in the original. (Translator’s note.)
[B] Equivalent in pre-war days to £1600. (Translator’s note.)
[C] In English in the original. (Translator’s note.)
[D] Compte rendu de la Délivrance de Sa Sainteté Léon XIII emprisonné dans les cachots du Vatican (Saint-Malo, imprimerie Y. Billois, rue de l’Orme 4), 1893. (Author’s note.)