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"I don't," said Sir John, with a loud guffaw. "But I assure you, my dear Corbett, she's simply wooden. Talk of making love, you might as well make love to to a chair or a cabinet. I can tell you Markham's had a lucky escape." "I don't imagine that's what put him off," said Sir John. "He knew something." "What do you suppose he knew?" "Something the Benhams told them, I fancy.
Marie gave a little sigh of pleasure, and the two moved forward, bearing to the left, toward the Champs-Elysées. "And now," said he, "about these Benhams. What is the thing I cannot quite recall? What has happened to them?" "I suppose," said the other man, "you mean the disappearance of Miss Benham's young brother a month ago before you returned to Paris.
"They say she led Frank Levitt an awful life. The Benhams, my dear, won't have her in the house." But all this was trivial compared with the correspondence that now passed between Mr. Waddington and Elise.
"Oh, MEASLES!" cried Amanda.... So the spirited honeymoon passed its zenith. The Benhams went as soon as possible down to Smyrna and thence by way of Uskub tortuously back to Italy. They recuperated at the best hotel of Locarno in golden November weather, and just before Christmas they turned their faces back to England.
Marie's cheeks burned hotly with anger when the words said themselves in his brain, but he knew that there could be no doubt of the Benhams' and even of old David Stewart's view of the affair. They would oppose the marriage with all their strength.
The strong and spacious house in which the Benhams and Braxtons lived had formerly been used as a stockade and fortification against Indian attack. Its thick walls were pierced with loop-holes, and its doors, of double oak planks, were studded with wrought-iron spikes, which made it bullet-proof.
The artistic circle brought in people, Lady Marayne brought in people; they spread. It was manifest the Benhams were a very bright young couple; he would certainly do something considerable presently, and she was bright and daring, jolly to look at and excellent fun, and, when you came to talk to her, astonishingly well informed. They passed from one hostess's hand to another: they reciprocated.
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