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Then, in spite of
their exalted aims, the devotion of their lives to noble purposes,
it was evident that Amanda had no intention of scamping the detail
of love, and for that what background is so richly beautiful as
Italy? An important aspect of the grand tour round the world as
Benham had planned it, had been interviews, inquiries and
conversations with every sort of representative and understanding
person he could reach. An unembarrassed young man who wants to know
and does not promise to bore may reach almost any one in that way,
he is as impersonal as pure reason and as mobile as a letter, but
the presence of a lady in his train leaves him no longer
unembarrassed. His approach has become a social event. The wife of
a great or significant personage must take notice or decide not to
take notice. Of course Amanda was prepared to go anywhere, just as
Benham's shadow; it was the world that was unprepared. And a second
leading aspect of his original scheme had been the examination of
the ways of government in cities and the shifting and mixture of
nations and races.


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