Benita, an African romance. H. Rider Haggard

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       H. Rider Haggard

      Benita, an African romance

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664639417

Table of Contents

       CONFIDENCES

       II

       THE END OF THE “ZANZIBAR.”

       III

       HOW ROBERT CAME ASHORE

       IV

       MR. CLIFFORD

       V

       JACOB MEYER

       VI

       THE GOLD COIN

       VII

       THE MESSENGERS

       VIII

       BAMBATSE

       IX

       THE OATH OF MADUNA

       X

       THE MOUNTAIN TOP

       XI

       THE SLEEPERS IN THE CAVE

       XII

       THE BEGINNING OF THE SEARCH

       XIII

       BENITA PLANS ESCAPE

       XIV

       THE FLIGHT

       XV

       THE CHASE

       XVI

       BACK AT BAMBATSE

       XVII

       THE FIRST EXPERIMENT

       XVIII

       THE OTHER BENITA

       XIX

       THE AWAKING

       XX

       JACOB MEYER SEES A SPIRIT

       XXI

       THE MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD

       XXII

       THE VOICE OF THE LIVING

       XXIII

       BENITA GIVES HER ANSWER

       XXIV

       THE TRUE GOLD

CONFIDENCES

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      Beautiful, beautiful was that night! No air that stirred; the black smoke from the funnels of the mail steamer Zanzibar lay low over the surface of the sea like vast, floating ostrich plumes that vanished one by one in the starlight. Benita Beatrix Clifford, for that was her full name, who had been christened Benita after her mother and Beatrix after her father’s only sister, leaning idly over the bulwark rail, thought to herself that a child might have sailed that sea in a boat of bark and come safely into port.

      Then a tall man of about thirty years of age, who was smoking a cigar, strolled up to her. At his coming she moved a little as though to make room for him beside her, and there was something in the motion which, had anyone been there to observe it, might have suggested that these two were upon terms of friendship, or still greater intimacy. For a moment he hesitated, and while he did so an expression of doubt, of distress even, gathered on his face. It was as though he understood that a great deal depended on whether he accepted or declined that gentle invitation, and knew not which to do.

      Indeed,