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Updated: June 26, 2025
At a very late hour we retired to our beds: the next morning the weather had moderated, and, on the arrival of the mail we embarked, and had a very good passage over. On my arrival at Dublin I directed my steps to the F t Hotel, as the best place to make inquiries relative to Mr De Benyon. Mr Cophagus also put up at the same hotel, and we agreed to share a sitting-room.
The two ladies were sitting together in the firelight, silent, with the consciousness of corded luggage, when the elder one suddenly remarked to her companion that she seemed to be taking a great deal upon herself in assuming that Raymond Benyon wouldn't force her hand.
After remaining a short time with him, I was leaving the hotel, when I was attracted by some trunks in the entrance hall. I started when I read the address of "A. De Benyon, Esq., to be left at F t Hotel, Dublin." I asked the waiter who was by, whether Mr De Benyon had left the hotel.
Lady Benyon asked, beaming already in anticipation. "Oh, nothing. Only I said Uncle James would say that if I sniffed. Didn't I, Mildred?" But Mildred, too wary to support her, looked down demurely. "Puck," said Lady Benyon, "you're a character." "There are good characters and there are bad characters," Uncle James moralised.
After remaining a short time with him, I was leaving the hotel, when I was attracted by some trunks in the entrance hall. I started when I read the address of "A. De Benyon, Esquire, to be left at F t Hotel, Dublin." I asked the waiter who was by, whether Mr De Benyon had left the hotel.
But for all this the Dean did not give up Quisanté; for all this he and Dick Benyon clung to their scheme and to the man who was to carry it out. In her urgent desire for guidance she took the Dean for a walk and tried to draw out his innermost opinions. He showed some surprise at her interest. "He's the last man I should have thought you'd care to know about, Lady May," he said.
To one who was in his sober senses, there certainly was not any important information gained; but to me, it was evident that the Mr De Benyon who was a general in the army was to be interrogated, and I had almost made up my mind to set off for Calcutta. I affront an Irish gentleman, and make a handsome apology, which is accepted.
His round face broke again into its cheerful smile. "We shall have to make the best of him as he is, Lady May," he ended. "Heaven forbid that I should encourage any woman to the task!" "I certainly don't think you seem likely to," she said with a laugh. "It seems to come to this: his manners are bad and his morals are worse." "Yes, I think so." "But, as Dick Benyon would say, so were Napoleon's."
It was he who always gave the signal to rise; before he did so on this occasion, he formally requested his sister to request Beth to be silent during Lady Benyon's visit. Lady Benyon was a shrewd, active little old woman, with four dark curls laid horizontally on either side of her forehead. She had bright black sparkling eyes that glanced about quickly and seemed to see everything.
Agnes gave him all the information that she possessed, but gave it with reservation, as though she were conferring a favour; and, when he left, she walked with him to the gate of the woods and blurted out that she was engaged to Dick Benyon.
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