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He turned round and found Fergusson presenting him to a royal personage, who was graciously pleased, however, to remember a former meeting, and waved away the words of introduction. It chanced, without any design on his part, that Berenice and he left almost at the same time, and met near the stage door.
Carter had become so fond of Berenice as an object of beauty, a prospective grande dame, that she would have sold her soul to see her well placed; and as the money to provide the dresses, setting, equipage had to come from somewhere, she had placed her spirit in subjection to Cowperwood and pretended not to see the compromising position in which she was placing all that was near and dear to her.
I did not like to answer any questions I could not bear to speak of Berenice, or even of Mr. Montenero. I took refuge in silence my mother reproached me for my silence. I talked on fast of any thing but that which interested me most.
I am making a Berenice series look at the sketches along there and now I think of it, you are just the model I want for the Agrippa." Hans, still with pencil and palette in hand, had moved to Deronda's side while he said this, but he added hastily, as if conscious of a mistake, "No, no, I forgot; you don't like sitting for your portrait, confound you! However, I've picked up a capital Titus.
I have known people with nicer reputations." Clara turned a shade paler. "I can never get away from him," she said. "He follows me everywhere, and " "You do not by any chance, I suppose, owe him money?" Berenice asked. "They tell me that he has a somewhat objectionable habit of winning money from girls, more than they can afford to pay, and then suggesting that it stand over for a time."
The people of Bedja, so often alluded to by these Arabian geographers, seem to have had considerable power, and to have occupied all the Soudan and as far north as Berenice, being probably the precursors of the Bisharin Amara tribes, which wander now over this desert country.
Harrington, your nerves have a great deal to bear yet. What will your nerves feel, madam what will your enthusiasm say, sir when I tell you, that I have lost my heart to a Jewess?" "Berenice!" cried I. "Impossible!" cried my mother. "How came you to see her?" "That's not for you to know yet; but first, young gentleman, you who are hanging on tenter-hooks, you must hang there a little longer."
I was offered a present of a milch-goat at Aden, but not being able to consult with the captain of the Berenice concerning its introduction on board, I did not like to allow the poor creature to run any risk of neglect.
I heard no more of him for some time indeed I made no inquiries. I could have no farther interest concerning a man who had conducted himself so ill. I only rejoiced that he was now out of my way, and that he had by all his treachery, and by all his artifices, given me an opportunity of seeing, more fully tried, the excellent understanding and amiable disposition of Berenice.
Certain things in her own and in her mother's life troubled her quarrels in her early days, from her seventh to her eleventh year, between her mother and her stepfather, Mr. Carter; the latter's drunkenness verging upon delirium tremens at times; movings from one place to another all sorts of sordid and depressing happenings. Berenice had been an impressionable child.
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