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Updated: June 18, 2025
"When Rufus Bennett makes an assertion," said Mr. Mortimer, highly flattered by these kind words, "you can bank on it, Rufus Bennett's word is his bond. Rufus Bennett is a white man!" The two old friends clasped hands with a good deal of feeling. "I am not disputing Mr. Bennett's claim to belong to the Caucasian race," said Mrs. Hignett, "I merely maintain that this house is...."
More romance hangs about Haddon than probably any other old baronial hall in England, and it has therefore been for years an endless source of inspiration for poets, artists, and novelists. Mrs. Radcliffe here laid some of the scenes of the Mysteries of Udolpho. Bennett's "King of the Peak" was Sir George Vernon, the hospitable owner of Haddon.
From the Sirdar down, contradictions of the charge have deservedly been slapped in Mr Bennett's face. But it is almost sheer waste of words to follow and refute line by line the article "After Omdurman."
Let other people nurse, and pitch their tents in little workmen's flats, and live democracy instead of preaching it. Her fate was fixed for her by her physique. Il ne faut pas sortir de son caractère. The sight of Bennett approaching distracted him. Bennett's good face showed obvious vexation. "He sticks to it," he said, as Wharton jumped up to meet him.
He held James Gordon Bennett's bond, that he would pay him half a million of dollars for the land, as follows: $100,000 cash, and a bond and mortgage upon the premises for the remaining $400,000. The day before the suit was to come to trial, Bennett came forward, took the deed, and paid $100,000 cash, and gave a bond and mortgage of the entire premises for $400,000.
This is all that I could learn at that time; and the occurrence soon after would have become with me like one of those things which had never happened, had I not, as I stood recently on the doorstep of Bennett's Hotel in Hartford, heard a man say, "There goes Peter Rugg and his child! he looks wet and weary, and farther from Boston than ever."
"You are absurd." "Lloyd, can't you see; don't you understand? It's as though I saw you rushing toward a precipice with your eyes shut." "My place is here. I shall not leave." But Bennett's next move surprised her. His eagerness, his agitation left him upon the instant He took out his watch. "I was wrong," he said quietly. "The next train will not go for an hour and a quarter.
Bennett's daughter Nellie is goin' to be married and we can get under the window and see it. It's the grandest thing ever happened here. The wedding cake has diamonds on it, and everybody that comes, that's invited, of course, is given some kind of a gift, and Nellie has solid silver buckles on her shoes and a veil that cost $50. I'll come for you," says Mitch.
After further account of its taking grasshoppers from visitors, he concludes: "Should any of the insects fall to the floor of his cage he will not descend to them, appearing to be fearful that in so doing he should soil his delicate plumage." Almost equally charming is Mr. Bennett's observation of one that Wallace carried alive to London, which lived two years there and became exceedingly tame.
There, on the plush cushion lay merely a round knobbed ring! Was this the end of their great expectations? Were Bennett's millions merely mythical? The two stared at each other in chagrin. Wu was the first to speak. "Where there should have been seven million dollars," he muttered to himself, "why is there only a mystic ring?"
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