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We left Nice the next day; but I heard some time after of a duel not many miles off, and although I could not get hold of the names, I make no doubt it was between those two gentlemen. I never knew which of them fell; poor fellow, whichever it was. 'Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! came from the dining-room. 'Whatever are those boozy men laughing at, I wonder? said Menlove.
"Recommend a hotel, at Benton where I'm going. There is a hotel, I suppose?" "Good Lord!" he exclaimed testily. "In a city of three thousand people? A hotel? A dozen of 'em, but I don't know their names. What do you expect to find in Benton? You're from the East, I take it. Going out on spec', or pleasure, or health?" "I have been advised to try Western air for a change," I answered.
"The devil's on our side all right, or why did she pass over the space at the bottom of the page and write their two names at the top of the next one?" He started, for his wife had clutched his arm. "Yes, the devil's on our side thus far," said she, "but here he stops. I have just remembered something that will upset our whole plan and possibly hang us.
"I want you, under feigned names of course," he went on, "as are all the names in your father's two books, to give me the further history of the family, and in particular your own experiences in London.
But, if thus addicted to funeral pageants, it is needless to say that weddings occupied their full proportion of her thoughts. Her schemes for matrimony fill the larger portion of her history, and are, like all the rest, a diamond necklace of great names. In the boudoir, as in the field, her campaigns were superb, but she was cheated of the results.
One day came when she was taken up out of the ground and borne into a glass house, placed in a large pot, and lifted up on to a pedestal, and left in a delicious atmosphere, with patrician plants all around her with long Latin names, and strange, rare beauties of their own.
There was just enough difference of opinion among the judges just enough irregularity in the trial, such as the omissions of the names from the long panel to enable them to pardon the whole set with a good grace." "If they did," said Blake, "the whole high Tory party in this country peers and parsons would be furious. They'd lose one set of supporters, and wouldn't gain another.
"Did she say the name?" "No she's very odd about that. She never tells any names, except that her sister was Phoebe. She told me that.... Oh yes she told me her little girl's name was Ruth." Gwen did not know the christened name of either Granny Marrable or Widow Thrale, when she said this. "Phoebe and Ruth," said the Earl. "Pretty names! But what has done it?
'Jean Jean' continued the gentleman, seeing my embarrassment. 'Ah, these terrible English names "Jean de Géanquilleur!" I was as wise as ever. And yet the name struck me as familiar, but slightly disguised. I repeated it to myself. It was mighty like John the Giant-killer, only his friends always call that worthy 'Jack'. I said the name aloud. 'Ah, that is it! said he.
Their names were known to no one there, and even should some of these afterwards peach they would at least be safe. Mark had been asked whether he could deny that he was a member of the detective force, and had shaken his head. Even if he had told a lie, which he would not do, the lie would have been a useless one.
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