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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title></title>
<style type="text/css" media="Screen">
* .indent {
  position: relative;
  margin-left: 100px;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

* .marginal-dropcap {
  position: absolute;
  left: -77px;
  top: -16px;
  font-size: 80px;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: black;
  background-color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="indent"><span class="marginal-dropcap">M</span>arginal Drop Cap. </p> 

</body>
</html>