E. F. Benson

Name: The Peerage Cure
Author: E. F. Benson

The Peerage Cure (1926)

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“The Peerage Cure”, published in 1926, is a work by E. F. Benson. It explores elements such as Christopher, Amy and picture postcards.

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E. F. Benson, The Peerage Cure (1926)

“ IT had been the most wonderful autumn for Mrs. Amy Bondham: never before had she lived so exclusively in the society of the great and the ennobled. She had spent October in a round (you might call it a merry-go-round) of visits; for though she had originally planned only four week-ends, she had made herself so popular at each of them that some member of the party had insisted, or at least consented, that she should spend the intervening days before her next engagement at a Castle or a Grange or something very moated and hereditary. ”

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E. F. Benson, The Peerage Cure (1926)

“ Wrapped in a fur coat, this unfortunate young man sat by the open window of the pink drawing-room so that the lively strains might reach the dancers, while Amy and the Duke pirouetted all day on the frozen water of the moat immediately below. One evening a Royal Princess dined at the Castle, and Amy grew greater than ever, for they skated again after dinner, and she nestled against the Riband of the Garter. She sat up half the night writing one account of all this to poor Christopher at Bath and another to a struggling young friend of hers who wrote paragraphs for the Press. ”

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E. F. Benson, The Peerage Cure (1926)

“ She was quite an expert on the ice, having spent the last winter at St. Moritz, where she had come across a great many agreeable people, and had, in fact, laid the foundation of the superb autumn she had just enjoyed. One of her picture postcards also showed a lake below the walls of the Castle, and another a mediæval moat round it. Probably the lake or the moat would bear, and the idea of discussing the newest views on Auto-suggestion with eminent psychologists, and then breaking off to astonish them by her lissome feats on the ice, was very attractive. ”

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E. F. Benson, The Peerage Cure (1926)

“ She grew rapidly worse: pleurisy set in. She became slightly delirious and babbled in a way that puzzled her nurse about garters and strawberry-leaves. It was in vain that she was assured that her garters were quite safe, and when her nurse told her that strawberries were out of season, she said drowsily, "Yes, but strawberry-leaves aren't." In the intervals of delirium, though her breathing was difficult, she seemed extraordinarily content and happy.
Then pleuro-pneumonia developed, and Christopher was sent for. ”

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E. F. Benson, The Peerage Cure (1926)

“ Christopher, you've saved me. I feel hungry, too; I should like a little chicken-broth, and then I think I shall have a nap. Tell everyone I am better and shall soon be well. So happy again!"
Dr. Elliott came back at about two o'clock, as he had promised. Amy was sunk in a peaceful, restorative sleep and was smiling as she slumbered. A glance at her and a couple of words with the nurse was enough for the professional eye, and he came down-stairs again to Christopher rubbing his hands. ”

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E. F. Benson, The Peerage Cure (1926)

“ She was well enough next day to write an amazing quantity of postcards to her friends, asking them all to come and see her, but not well enough to travel. The day after she was not well enough to do anything at all except to have a high temperature, and all the friends had to be put off. ”

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E. F. Benson, The Peerage Cure (1926)

“ The words "perhaps there won't be a next" gave Christopher a queer little shudder, but that probably was acidity too.
"You bet there will, Posie," he said, "if there are enough fine houses left in England to fill it. You have become a fashionable little dame."
She sighed.
"But there are other things besides that," she said, rather doubtfully. "There's that volume of Proust which I must read, an£ The Life and Times of Tutankhamen, and that book on Auto-suggestion. I shall take them up to Yorkshire. And when my visit's over I shall join you at Bath." ”

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