The Research Magnificent Chapter the First: The boy grows up
1. Benham's father was a school headmaster, who never had much success.
2. Benham's mother is introduced. Benham sees her a few times a year when they have tea. The Lady Marayne makes conversation and then sends him on his way.
3. Benham's step-mother loved hims as her own son. But her spirits were weighed down by the belief that Porphory, Benham's father, did not love her and that marriage to divorced people was a sin. Only later in his life was Benham able to see how she loved him.
4. Benham's mother dreams of big things for her son. She also informs him that money will be nothing to him. He will have thousands a year.
5. Benham's mother frets over his friends. How can anyone from a good family with William go by Billy? She also frets over the boy's and their being "socialists".
6. In which we learn oft he origins of Billy's and Benham's friendship. We also learn more about Billy and his unconventional habits. Benham's mother concocts a plan to destroy Billy at her estate.
7. The Lady Marayne launches her attack on Billy. Billy's people are small business owners in London. His mother is a dress maker. Billy lives on his scholarships. The Lady feels bad with how the questioning goes.
8. Benham breaches the subject of his inheritance with Billy Prothero. They both have ides on how to spend it. Benham's plan is to be the best aristocrat he can be.
9. In which Socialism, Democracy and Aristocracy is talked about between Prothero and Lady Marayne.
10. Lady Marayne laments Benham's friendship with Billy and his going to Trinity College.
11. After being nearly run down by a man in a horse drawn wagon, Benham decides the thing to do is to drive. The problem is Benham doesn't know how to drive. After he crashes his wagon, Prothero jumps down and hides. He realizes what he has done, and is ashamed of his actions. He then does his best to catch up with Benham.
12. In which Benham and Prother "make up", after Prothero abandoned Benahm during the wreck.
13. White continues going through Benham's papers and finds a couple of essays that take him back to the old days and foreshadows a love interest for Benham.
14. Benham attends a speech by a Roman Catholic priest and begins to question true Democracy since not all men are equal.
15. White reads the second paper. Benham postulates that each man must choose the life he wants for himself. Benham says it is as natural as being a potato farmer, only more rare. The difference between a rat and a panther. .
2. Benham's mother is introduced. Benham sees her a few times a year when they have tea. The Lady Marayne makes conversation and then sends him on his way.
3. Benham's step-mother loved hims as her own son. But her spirits were weighed down by the belief that Porphory, Benham's father, did not love her and that marriage to divorced people was a sin. Only later in his life was Benham able to see how she loved him.
4. Benham's mother dreams of big things for her son. She also informs him that money will be nothing to him. He will have thousands a year.
5. Benham's mother frets over his friends. How can anyone from a good family with William go by Billy? She also frets over the boy's and their being "socialists".
6. In which we learn oft he origins of Billy's and Benham's friendship. We also learn more about Billy and his unconventional habits. Benham's mother concocts a plan to destroy Billy at her estate.
7. The Lady Marayne launches her attack on Billy. Billy's people are small business owners in London. His mother is a dress maker. Billy lives on his scholarships. The Lady feels bad with how the questioning goes.
8. Benham breaches the subject of his inheritance with Billy Prothero. They both have ides on how to spend it. Benham's plan is to be the best aristocrat he can be.
9. In which Socialism, Democracy and Aristocracy is talked about between Prothero and Lady Marayne.
10. Lady Marayne laments Benham's friendship with Billy and his going to Trinity College.
11. After being nearly run down by a man in a horse drawn wagon, Benham decides the thing to do is to drive. The problem is Benham doesn't know how to drive. After he crashes his wagon, Prothero jumps down and hides. He realizes what he has done, and is ashamed of his actions. He then does his best to catch up with Benham.
12. In which Benham and Prother "make up", after Prothero abandoned Benahm during the wreck.
I don't know whether anyone can realize how a poor man is hampered by the dread of minor catastrophes.The talk turns to bravery and money. We begin to see the differences between Benham and Billy.
13. White continues going through Benham's papers and finds a couple of essays that take him back to the old days and foreshadows a love interest for Benham.
14. Benham attends a speech by a Roman Catholic priest and begins to question true Democracy since not all men are equal.
15. White reads the second paper. Benham postulates that each man must choose the life he wants for himself. Benham says it is as natural as being a potato farmer, only more rare. The difference between a rat and a panther. .
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