BEULAH 
 
 
the mists of rationalism result in clear 
views of and high faith in revealed relig- 
ion. Her guardian, and long her teacher, 
loves her, and after years of waiting, wins 
her. 
  "Have you learned that fame is an icy shad- 
ow?"'he asks upon his return from the pro- 
tracted wanderings that have taught both how 
much they need one another. "That gratified 
ambition cannot make you happy? Do you love 
me? " 
  "Yes." 
  "Better than teaching school and writing 
learned articles ?" 
  "Rather better, I believe, sir." 
  Beulah, a novel by Augusta Evans Wil- 
son (1859). 
 
  Beuves (1 syl.), or Buo'vo of Ay'gre- 
mont, father of Malagigi, and uncle of Ri- 
naldo. Treacherously slain by Ga'no.- 
Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516). 
 
  Beuves de Hantone, French form for 
Bevis of Southampton (q.v.). "Hantone" 
is a French corruption of [South]ampton. 
 
  BeV'an (Mr.), an American physician, 
who befriends Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark 
Tapley in many ways during their stay 
in the New World.- C. Dickens, Martin 
Chuzzlewit (1844). 
 
  Bev'erley, "the gamester," naturally a 
good man, but led astray by Stukely, till 
at last he loses everything by gambling, 
and dies a miserable death. 
  Mrs. Beverley, the gamester's wife. She 
loves her husband fondly, and clings to him 
in all his troubles. 
  Charlotte Beverley, in love with Lewson, 
but Stukely wishes to marry her. She 
loses all her fortune through her brother, 
"the gamester," but Lewson notwithstand- 
ing marries her.-Edward Moore, The 
Gamester (1712-1757). 
 
 
  Beverley, brother of Clarissa, and the 
lover of Belinda Blandford. He is ex- 
tremely jealous, and catches at trifles light 
as air to confirm his fears; but his love is 
most sincere, and his penitence most hum- 
ble when he finds out how causeless his 
suspicions are. Belinda is too proud to 
deny his insinuations, but her love is so 
deep that she repents of giving him a mo- 
ment's pain.-A. Murphy, All in the Wrong I 
(1761). 
  Beverley Thurston, a lawyer, belong- 
ing to an old New York family, in love 
with Claire Twining, The Ambitious Woman 
of Edgar Fawcett's society novel (1883). 
  He was a man of about forty years old, who 
had never married. His figure was tall and 
shapely; his face, usually grave, was capable of 
much geniality. He had travelled, read, thought, 
and observed. He stood somewhat high in the 
legal profession, and came, on the maternal side, 
of a somewhat noted family. 
  Bev'il, a model gentleman, in Steele's 
Conscious Lovers. 
          Whate'er can deck mankind 
 Or charm the heart, in generous Bevil shewed. 
     Thomson, The Seasons (" Winter," 1726). 
  Bevil (Francis, Harry, and George), three 
brothers-one an M.P., another in the law, 
and the third in the Guards-who, un- 
known to each other, wished to obtain in 
marriage the hand of Miss Grubb, the 
daughter of a rich stock-broker. The 
M. P. paid his court to the father, and ob- 
tained his consent; the lawyer paid his 
court to the mother, and obtained her con- 
sent; the officer paid his court to the young 
lady, and having obtained her consent, the 
other two brothers retired from the field.- 
O'Brien, Cross Purposes. 
  Be'vis, the horse of lord Marmion.-Sir 
W. Scott, Marmion (1808). 
 
  Be'vis (Sir) of Southampton. Having 
 
 
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