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"Why didn't you kill him then with your own hands, instead of that torture?" "Why did n't I kill myself? That question would be more to the point You are looking wonderfully well," she broke off in another tone; "had n't we better sit down?" "I did n't come here for the advantage of conversation," Benyon answered. And he was going on, but she interrupted him
"Lady Benyon is going to honour us with a visit," he began in his most impressive manner. There is no snob so inveterate as your snob of good birth; and Uncle James said "Lady" as if it were a privilege just to pronounce the word. "She will arrive this afternoon at a quarter to four." "But you will be practising," Beth exclaimed.
Marchmont felt that, if May Gaston wronged him, she was wronging far more herself, and most of all his ideal of her. He could not believe such a thing of her without her own plain assurance, and would not suffer it until every effort to redeem and rescue her was exhausted. "You don't mean," he said at last openly and bluntly to Dick Benyon, "that you think it's possible she'll marry him?"
Had he known what to pray for, he would have supplicated heaven that he might meet eyes able to see the man beneath the ape. Such eyes, dimly penetrating with an unexpected vision, he had won to his side in the Benyon brothers; the rest of the world still stuck on the outside surface.
Baxter withdrew into seclusion with a novel and a petticoat, Dick Benyon asked May to walk in the garden with him, and when she refused went off to play billiards with Morewood. May had pleaded letters to write and sat down to the task. The man who a little while ago had been the centre of attention was left alone.
"I don't mean to make myself uncomfortable," said Miss Quisanté. "How much do you want?" He stopped and turned round quickly with a gleam of eagerness in his eyes, as though he had a vision of much wealth. "No, no," she added with a surly chuckle, "the least you'll take is the most I'll give." "I owe money." "Who to?" she asked, setting her cap uncompromisingly straight. "Jews?" "No. Dick Benyon."
"May I ask you a few particulars relative to the present earl and his brothers?" "Most certainly, sir," replied Mr De Benyon; "any information I can give you will be at your service. The earl has four brothers. The eldest Maurice." "Is he married?" "Yes, and has two children. The next is William." "Is he married?" "No; nor has he ever been. He is a general in the army. The third is myself, Henry."
Before he could say the words she sprang up, checking him with a cry. "Don't say it; it is n't necessary! Of course I know what you mean; but they won't be if no one knows it." "I should object to knowing it myself; it's enough for me to know it of yours." "Of course I have been prepared for your saying that" "I should hope so!" Benyon exclaimed.
Yet Miss Quisanté laughed, as a man's relatives often will although the rest of the world is unimpeachably grave. For any person engaged in getting a complete view of Alexander Quisanté it was well to turn from Dick Benyon to Aunt Maria. So May Gaston found when she took the old woman at her word and went to see her, unaccompanied by Lady Attlebridge.
"Well, my dear, I did not assert that it was. I only asked." "Well, then, if you only asked for information, De Benyon, I will tell you that it is not too low, and I think you will acknowledge that on this point my opinion ought to be decisive; for, if I have no other merit, I have at least the merit of being the best-dressed woman in London." "Verily thou persuadest me, Susannah," replied I.
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