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Updated: May 13, 2025
Catherine attempted to explain. "They were Captain Bennydeck's rooms," she began; "but he was so kind, although we are perfect strangers to him " Mrs. Presty interposed. "My dear Catherine, you have not had my advantages; you have not been taught to make a complicated statement in few words. This place, Randal, is always full; and we didn't write long enough beforehand to secure rooms.
Even the chance of successfully confiding her to Bennydeck's protection had lost something of its fair promise, since Randal's visit to Sydenham. That the Captain would welcome his friend's daughter as affectionately as if she had been his own child, was not to be doubted for a moment.
These instructions pointed, in Captain Bennydeck's estimation, to sailing for pleasure's sake, and therefore to hiring a yacht. The third and last letter announced that the yacht had been found, and described the captain's plans when the vessel was ready for sea. He proposed to sail here and there about the Channel, wherever it might please the wind to take him.
Having allowed herself to be entrapped into the deception proposed by her mother, and having thus far persevered in that deception, were the chances in favor of her revealing her true position especially if she was disposed to encourage Bennydeck's suit?
The one other course that he could take was to mention Captain Bennydeck's name to Sydney, and be guided by the result. As he approached the bell, determining to send a message upstairs, he heard the door opened behind him. Mrs. The Mother-in-Law. Strong as the impression was which Captain Bennydeck had produced on Randal, Mrs. Presty's first words dismissed it from his mind.
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