“Have you learned that fame is an icy shadow?” he asks upon his return from the protracted 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 Wilson (1859).

BEUVES (1 syl.), or BUO’VO OF AY’GREMONT, father of Malagigi, and uncle of Rinaldo.  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 Southampton.

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 notwithstanding marries her.—­Edward Moore, The Gamester (1712-1757).

Beverley, brother of Clarissa, and the lover of Belinda Blandford.  He is extremely jealous, and catches at trifles light as air to confirm his fears; but his love is most sincere, and his penitence most humble 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 moment’s pain.—­A.  Murphy, All in the Wrong (1761).

BEVERLEY THURSTON, a lawyer, belonging 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.

  Whatever 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, unknown 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 obtained his consent; the lawyer paid his court to the mother, and obtained her consent; 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.