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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Unhappily, however," said Mr. Puttock, spreading out his plump hands in pathetic fashion, "as you might conjecture, Mr. " he glanced at the visitor's card "Benham, my influence at the present juncture is less than nil. I am powerless.
When he had given vent to this conviction three times, Benham, who hadn't spoken since their entrance, said quietly: "And you're going away from it as hard as you can pelt." The General turned moist eyes upon him. "Are you a man of family, sir?" "No." "Then I cannot expect you to understand." His eyes brimmed at some thought too fine and moving for public utterance.
It was still possible for Benham to regard the empire as a splendid opportunity, and London as the conceivable heart of the world. He could think of Parliament as a career, and of a mingling of aristocratic socialism based on universal service with a civilizing imperialism as a purpose.... But his thoughts had gone wider and deeper than that....
He conveyed his absolute acquiescence with Benham's wishes whatever they were. His life for that moment was unreservedly at his friend's disposal.... White never knew if his promise was heard. Benham had stopped speaking quite abruptly with that "What?"
Good Lord!" cried George Benham, with honest warmth, "with opportunities opening out before one on every side with life extending prizes to one with both hands when you see coal-heavers making fifty dollars a week and the fellows who clean out the sewers going happy and singing about their work why does a man deliberately choose a job like writing plays?
Certain of Rosalind Benham's friends would have been able to see nothing but the crudities and squalor of Manti, viewing it as Miss Benham did, from one of the windows of her father's private car, which early that morning had been shunted upon a switch at the outskirts of town.
He had been tempted to cross the ocean by the opportunities for preaching the gospel to the heathen, and he had fixed on Benham as a vineyard where he could labor to advantage. His advent had been a success. He had awakened interest by his fervor and by his methods.
Come round and tell me all about it." Benham lied about an engagement. "Then to-morrow in the morning."... Impossible. "In the afternoon. You don't WANT to see me." Benham did want to see her. "Come round and have a jolly little evening to-morrow night. I've got some more of that harpsichord music. And I'm dying to see you. Don't you understand?" Further lies.
Burnside's and Wright's corps were on the Chickahominy, and crossed during the night, Warren's corps and the cavalry still covering the army. The material for a pontoon bridge was already at hand and the work of laying it was commenced immediately, under the superintendence of Brigadier-General Benham, commanding the engineer brigade.
Amanda and Benham riding one behind the other in a stricken silence passed this labouring column without a gesture, but presently they heard the commander stopping and questioning Giorgio.... Then Giorgio and the others came clattering to overtake them. Giorgio was too full to wait for questions. He talked eagerly to Benham's silence. It must have happened yesterday, he explained.
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