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Eric Sanson and Abel Behenna were face to face and none knew of the meeting save themselves; and God. On the instant a wave of passion swept through Eric's heart. All his hopes were shattered, and with the hatred of Cain his eyes looked out. He saw in the instant of recognition the joy in Abel's face that his was the hand to succour him, and this intensified his hate.
I was in the ropemaker's getting a coil to replace the one you lost the night of the storm, and there I saw Michael Heavens of this place, who is a salesman there. He told me that Abel Behenna had come home the week ere last on the Star of the Sea from Canton, and that he had lodged a sight of money in the Bristol Bank in the name of Sarah Behenna.
When, after a while, she came out, with her arm in a sling, she was peaceful in her mind and happy. She said to her husband: 'The gipsy was wonderfully near the truth; too near for the real thing ever to occur now, dear. Joshua bent over and kissed the wounded hand. The Coming of Abel Behenna
Finally the leader was made to see the error of his ways, and the light dog-cart swung round the corner, and with a flourish of the whip and a clatter and a heart-catching swerve round the angle of the hedge Nicky's tandem bore him swiftly down the road towards where the telegraph wires told of the way which led to Miss Polly Behenna.
Standing before Abel and Sarah, who had their arms round each other, he said: 'You have a year. Make the most of it! And be sure you're in time to claim your wife! Be back to have your banns up in time to be married on the 11th April. If you're not, I tell you I shall have my banns up, and you may get back too late. 'What do you mean, Eric? You are mad! 'No more mad than you are, Abel Behenna.
To the younger generation of theatre-goers he is fast becoming like a half-mythical demigod one of those whom the elder folk mention with regretful shakings of the head when newer favourites are lauded. The actor was not born in Cornwall, but in Somerset; his mother, however, was a Cornish woman named Behenna, and one of his aunts was Mrs.
One slip on that rock and you are lost: and no man could keep his feet in the dark on such a place in such a tempest! 'Not a bit, came the reply. 'You remember how Abel Behenna saved me there on a night like this when my boat went on the Gull Rock. He dragged me up from the deep water in the seal cave, and now someone may drift in there again as I did, and he was gone into the darkness.
The falling tide had deposited there the body of Abel Behenna stark upon the broken rocks. The rope trailing from its waist had been twisted by the current round the mooring post, and had held it back whilst the tide had ebbed away from it.
"I thought you knew," said Georgie slowly, "though I might have known you didn't; you never see anything, which may be very beautiful, but, believe me, can be very trying to a poor female! If you really want to know, he goes over to Penzance in his tandem every early-closing day to take out Miss Polly Behenna from Behenna the draper's in Market Jew Street."
Abel Behenna was dark with the gypsy darkness which the Phoenician mining wanderers left in their track; Eric Sanson which the local antiquarian said was a corruption of Sagamanson was fair, with the ruddy hue which marked the path of the wild Norseman.
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