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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.
Benham's plans were comprehensive but entirely vague; Amanda had not
so much plans as intentions. . . .
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
THE ASSIZE OF JEALOUSY
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It was very manifest in the disorder of papers amidst which White
spent so many evenings of interested perplexity before this novel
began to be written that Benham had never made any systematic
attempt at editing or revising his accumulation at all. There were
not only overlapping documents, in which he had returned again to
old ideas and restated them in the light of fresh facts and an
apparent unconsciousness of his earlier effort, but there were
mutually destructive papers, new views quite ousting the old had
been tossed in upon the old, and the very definition of the second
limitation, as it had first presented itself to the writer, had been
abandoned.
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