Unnamed Clients of Horace Benbow
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Unnamed Clients of Horace Benbow
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Unnamed Clients of Horace Benbow
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
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Biography:
From the little that is said about them in Flags in the Dust, it seems that the law practice that Horace Benbow inherits from his father Will serves mainly if not exclusively the aristocracy of Yoknapatawpha. He meets "conferees" "across pleasant dinner tables or upon golf links or . . . upon tennis courts"; he conserves the will's of "testators" who spend their lives "in black silk and lace caps" (179).