From 2bad8f074f3e246bd776b26df9a8b9dbbde541e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Corrado Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:15:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [Editorial] Add comma The paragraph mirrors an earlier one in the story exactly except for the comma. Grammatically it belongs, anyway. --- src/epub/text/sociology-in-serge-and-straw.xhtml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/epub/text/sociology-in-serge-and-straw.xhtml b/src/epub/text/sociology-in-serge-and-straw.xhtml index 111a1b8..68ee160 100644 --- a/src/epub/text/sociology-in-serge-and-straw.xhtml +++ b/src/epub/text/sociology-in-serge-and-straw.xhtml @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@

Immediately before us were the village baseball grounds. And now came the sportive youth of Fishampton and distributed themselves, shouting, about the diamond.

“There,” said the sociologist, pointing, “there is young Van Plushvelt.”

I raised myself (so far a cosycophant with Mary Ann) and gazed.

-

Young Van Plushvelt sat upon the ground. He was dressed in a ragged red sweater, wrecked and weatherworn golf cap, run-over shoes, and trousers of the “serviceable” brand. Dust clinging to the moisture induced by free exercise, darkened wide areas of his face.

+

Young Van Plushvelt sat upon the ground. He was dressed in a ragged red sweater, wrecked and weatherworn golf cap, run-over shoes, and trousers of the “serviceable” brand. Dust, clinging to the moisture induced by free exercise, darkened wide areas of his face.

“That is he,” repeated the sociologist. If he had said “him” I could have been less vindictive.

On a bench, with an air, sat the young millionaire’s chum.

He was dressed in a neat suit of dark blue serge, a neat white straw hat, neat low-cut tan shoes, linen of the well-known “immaculate” trade mark, a neat, narrow four-in-hand tie, and carried a slender, neat bamboo cane.