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The Bensons, who had fortunately secured rooms a month in advance, sat quietly waiting while the crowd filed before the register, and took its fate from the courteous autocrat behind the counter. "No room," was the nearly uniform answer, and the travelers had the satisfaction of writing their names and going their way in search of entertainment.
She is a very handsome woman perhaps you would expect me to say handsome still; but that seems a sort of treason to her mature beauty." "And who else?" "Oh, the Storbes from New Orleans, the Slifers from Mobile no end of people some from Philadelphia and Ohio." "Ohio? Those Bensons!" said she, turning sharply on him. "Yes, those Bensons, Penelope. Why not?" "Oh, nothing. It's a free country.
I am sure the Bensons ought not to be able to afford sugar, with their means. And do not eat much; you can have plenty at home on your return; remember Mrs Denbigh's keep must cost them a great deal." So Jemima returned considerably sobered, and very much afraid of her hunger leading her to forget Mr Benson's poverty.
She and Mr Farquhar had been to the Bensons, and had sat there some time; and now Jemima had come on just to see Ruth for five minutes, before the evening was too dark for her to return alone. She found Ruth sitting on a stool before the fire, which was composed of a few sticks on the hearth.
He asked at the Bensons' house; and Sally answered him, with swollen and tearful eyes, that the child was very bad very bad indeed. He asked at the doctor's; and the doctor told him, in a few short words, that "it was only a bad kind of measles, and that the lad might have a struggle for it, but he thought he would get through.
Could they be a party to the deceit? Not sufficiently acquainted with the world to understand how strong had been the temptation to play the part they did, if they wished to give Ruth a chance, Jemima could not believe them guilty of such deceit as the knowledge of Mrs Denbigh's previous conduct would imply; and yet how it darkened the latter into a treacherous hypocrite, with a black secret shut up in her soul for years living in apparent confidence, and daily household familiarity with the Bensons for years, yet never telling the remorse that ought to be corroding her heart!
"So did I; but they have gone, or some of them have." "But mine are coming tomorrow. Who has gone?" "Mrs. Pendragon and the Bensons. But I didn't suppose I could tell you any news about the Bensons." "I have been out of the way of the newspapers lately. Did you happen to hear where they have gone?" "Somewhere around the mountains. You need not look so indifferent; they are coming back here again.
Nobody knows when I may have another chance to get myself in good form at golf, and I must make the most of this." "But there are more days coming, and the Bensons are such pleasant people to know." "I know more people now than I can get any good of," Phebe said, as she balanced her driver, and then swept it around in a circle with a force which nearly overturned her. "What's the use of any more?
At the station in Jersey City a place suggestive of love and romance and full of tender associations the party separated for a few days, the Bensons going to Saratoga, and King accompanying Forbes to Long Branch, in pursuance of an agreement which, not being in writing, he was unable to break.
Mr Farquhar tried to catch him to speak to him, and tame him as it were; and, by-and-by, he contrived to interest him sufficiently to induce the boy to stay a little while in the house, or stables, or garden. But the race through the streets was always to be dreaded as the end of ever so pleasant a visit. Mr Farquhar kept up the intercourse with the Bensons which he had thus begun.
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