BEULAH, a poor girl taken from an orphan asylum and brought up in a family of refinement and education. She develops strong traits of character and much intellectual ability. Her long struggles through the mists of rationalism result in clear views of and high faith in revealed religion. Her guardian, and long her teacher, loves her, and after years of waiting, wins her. "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).