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Once she'd got away with him, and had had any kind of hole-in-the-corner wedding, Honoré was of opinion that even the most abandoned Dragon would be thankful to sanction a marriage according to French law; so it could all be done over again properly in France. I suppose this appealed immensely to Ellaline's love of intrigue and kittenish tricksiness generally.
Georgie nearly swooned with fervour and admiration. "But what a perfect plan!" he said. "You really like our little Riseholme?" "It's not a question of liking; it's a mere detail of not being able to do without it. I don't like breathing, but I should die if I didn't. I want some delicious, hole-in-the-corner, lazy backwater sort of place, where nothing ever happens, and nobody ever does anything.
I'll have a bet with you boys. Fifty pounds that I get back safely, and dispel the morbid fancies from your kindergarten brains by tellin' you that the things are glow-worms, or some fool out for a practical joke on the neighbourhood which has fallen for it like this sort of one-horse hole-in-the-corner place would! Fifty pounds? What say you?"
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