And Uncle Benedict was an awful lot like him. His eyes twinkled at me and he said, ‘You must be my niece, Jan. Never would have thought Rob and Nellie could produce such a beauty.’ ” Jan blushed. “I liked him right off. Not so much for the compliment as for the way he said it. Completely outspoken and frank in a deep, hearty voice. My other uncles fl atter me in such a namby-pamby way I hate it. Well, anyway, Uncle Ben and I got on together from the very beginning. In less than an hour I was weeping on his shoulder about wanting to be an artist and how Mother wouldn’t let me. He didn’t say anything that day, but I saw a lot of him after that. Mother didn’t approve, but I went ahead and met him away from home. We went for long walks through Central Park, and rode on the top of open buses even in bitter cold weather. And he told me about his different experiences and scrapes. Then one day he got to talking about ambergris. Said that it didn’t smell awful at all but had the most delicate, exotic fragrance with a nice seaweedy smell too.”
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