Benella

"Benella," I said, in that mysterious whisper which one uses for such communications, "Dr. La Touche has asked Miss Peabody to marry him, and she has consented."

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

We have been here five days, and instead of reproving Benella, as we intended, for gross assumption of authority in the matter, we are more than ever her bond-slaves.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Benella and be an independent householder for a time.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

The strings in the bags pull both ways, and nothing is commoner than to see Benella open and close seventeen or eighteen of them when she is searching for

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

It was Benella, after all, who inveigled us into making our first political misstep; for, after avoiding the sin of absenteeism, we fell into one almost as black, inasmuch as we evicted a tenant.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Benella is of different stuff; she not only distrusts fairies, but, like the Scotch Presbyterians, she fears that they are wicked.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Benella seemed hurt and a trifle resentful as she replied: "That about doubters is just what Mrs. Kimberly used to say."

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

I tried to coax Benella to go with me to the hyacinth wood by moonlight.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Benella said yesterday: 'Of course, when you three separate, I shall stay with the one that needs me most; but if Miss Peabody SHOULD settle over here anywhere, I'd like to take a scrubbing brush an' go through the castle, or whatever she's going to live in, with soap and sand and ammonia, and make it water-sweet before she sets foot in it. '...

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

We had seen all that Youghal could offer to the tourist; we were yearning for Salemina; we wanted to hear Benella talk about 'the science'; we were eager to inspect the archaeologist, to see if he

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889