Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
On the top stair of the first flight he caught his foot in a loose piece of carpet, and stumbled, dropping the candlestick, which broke off at the base. In silence, Mrs. Benn fetched another, and handed it to him with an air of resignation, then, "You'll be sure and put it out safe, sir," she said.
"Good-bye." "I'll look in in a week's time," said Mr. Travers. He took the proffered hand and shook it warmly. "It would be the best joke of all," he said, turning away. "What would?" The soldier confronted her again. "For old Benn to come round here one evening and find me landlord. Think it over." Mrs. Waters met his gaze soberly. "I'll think it over when you have gone," she said, softly.
They seemed to weave themselves into the symbolism of Benn Claridge's letter, written from the hills of Bagdad. "But," the letter continued, "the Governor passed by with his suite, the buckles of the harness of his horses all silver, his carriage shining with inlay of gold, his turban full of precious stones.
Waters fell back and regarded him with open-eyed amazement. "Good morning," she said, as soon as she could trust her voice. "Good-bye," said Mr. Travers, reluctantly. "I should like to hear how old Benn takes this joke, though." Mrs. Waters retreated into the house and stood regarding him. "If you're passing this way again and like to look in I'll tell you," she said, after a long pause.
Always his dreams and imaginings settled round his Uncle Benn, until he had found himself trying to speak to the little brown man across the thousand leagues of land and sea. He had found, too, in the past that when he seemed to be really speaking to his uncle, when it seemed as though the distance between them had been annihilated, that soon afterwards there came a letter from him.
Betty, who was in far greater fear of her age being discovered than of being unchristianized in the search, though the fact was that she knew nothing certain about the matter, and had no desire to be enlightened, feeling as if she was thus left at liberty to hint what she pleased, Betty, I say, never had any intention of going 'benn the hoose to the mistress. For the threat was merely the rod of terror which she thought it convenient to hold over the back of the boy, whom she always supposed to be about some mischief except he were in her own presence and visibly reading a book: if he were reading aloud, so much the better.
There flashed into his mind that this stranger in Eastern garb was Ebn Ezra Bey, the old friend of Benn Claridge, of whom his uncle had spoken and written so much. The same instinct drew Ebn Ezra Bey to him he saw the uncle's look in the nephew's face. In a breathless stillness the Oriental said in perfect English, with a voice monotonously musical: "I came to thy house and found thee not.
All this they knew; but none of them, to his or her knowledge, had ever seen David's father. He was legendary; though there was full proof that the girl had been duly married. That had been laid before the Elders by Luke Claridge on an occasion when Benn Claridge, his brother was come among them again from the East.
A terrible mixter o' reid and white." "What said he about it?" asked Alec, trembling. "Ow, naething. He had naething till say. Ye maunna gang near him; for I left him fest asleep. Gang awa benn to yer ain room, and I'll be in wi' yer brakfast in ten minutes. Eh! but ye wad be a fine lad gin ye wad only gie up the drink and the ill company." Alec obeyed, ashamed and full of remorse.
Then suitors had come the soldier from Shipley Wood, the lord of Axwood Manor, and others, and, in a way, a new sense was born in her, though she was alive to the fact that the fifteen thousand pounds inherited from her Uncle Benn had served to warm the air about her into a wider circle.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking