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Among the petitioners for leave to go to "Old France," a little later, appear "Benoni Melanson and Marie, with family of seven," and from that date the waifs from Acadie appear no more in the annals of Lancaster. The generosity of the American people, in the making of gifts to their institutions of learning, is munificent. The generosity is keeping pace with the increase of wealth.
"Best hear the charge against her first?" said one suspiciously, while another added, "Is not this the woman who dwelt with you at Tyre, and who is said to be a Christian?" "We do not sit to try questions of faith, at least not now," answered Benoni evasively. "Woman, is it true that you are a Christian?" queried one of the judges.
Nehushta bade the nurse stand back out of hearing, and, bearing the child in her arms, said: "Sir, tell me, I pray you, if I speak to Ithiel, a priest of high rank among this people of the Essenes, and brother to the dead lady Miriam, wife of Benoni the Jew, a merchant of Tyre?" At the mention of these names Ithiel's face saddened, then grew calm again.
From that day to this she had heard nothing of him till now they met again, the judge and the victim, caught in a common net. Presently, in the confusion they were brought together and he knew her. "Are you Miriam, the grand-daughter of Benoni?" he asked. "I am Miriam," she answered, "whom you, Simon, and your fellows doomed to a cruel death, but who have been preserved "
"Miriam?" he gasped, rising, to fall back again in his seat, "Miriam, you here?" "It seems so, grandfather," she answered quietly. "There is some mistake," said Benoni. "This girl can have harmed none. Let her be dismissed." The other judges looked up.
"Here may be an answer to the riddle," said the President. "We know of this Benoni, also that he purposed to demand his granddaughter of us, though until he did so it was not for us to speak." Then he put it to the Court that Benoni should be admitted.
Before long he appeared, and glanced up at me from the steps, which he climbed, one at a time, with his stick. "Is my daughter here?" he asked, as soon as he reached me; and his voice sounded subdued, just as Nino's did when Benoni had gone, I conducted him into the room. It was the strangest meeting. The proud old man bowed stiffly to Hedwig, as though he had never before seen her.
"Good-night," said Benoni. "I am tired and most go to bed." Nino found his way out alone, but carefully noted the position of the palazzo before he went home through the deserted streets. It was four in the morning. Early in the morning after Nino's visit to Signor Benoni, De Pretis came to my house, wringing his hands and making a great trouble and noise.
"That depends on the most illustrious Signor Cardegna," said Benoni, smiling. "He only asked you to find them. He probably did not anticipate that I would help you." It did not appear to me that Benoni had helped me much, after all. You might as well look for a needle in a haystack as try to find anyone who goes to the Italian mountains.
It will be found well worth reading." National Ægis, Worcester. =Life under an Italian Despotism!= One Vol., 12mo, Cloth Price $1.00. "The author of 'Lorenzo Benoni' is GIOVANNI RUFFINI, a native of Genoa, who effected his escape from his native country after the attempt at revolution in 1833.
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