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'Is there anything Monsieur would like to add to his message? I asked. 'No, said he, 'or stay, tell him that all goes well in the north, but he must not leave Paris until I see him." You may guess how I cursed Mr. Romaine for this beating about the bush. If all went well in the north, what possible excuse of caution could the man have for holding back Flora's letter?
I have, in a former chapter, described the terrible affair in which Romaine slew his wife and Anderson her paramour and then killed himself. I need scarcely say that this encounter with Mrs. Raymond, under such peculiar circumstances, rather astonished me.
Rowley is but another danger, said Romaine. 'Rowley, said I, 'will pass as a servant from a distance as a creature seen poised on the dicky of a bowling chaise. He will pass at hand as a smart, civil fellow one meets in the inn corridor, and looks back at, and asks, and is told, "Gentleman's servant in Number 4." He will pass, in fact, all round, except with his personal friends!
I began to fear that he suspected the intimacy which existed between his adulterous wife and her paramour. By the way it may be as well to remark that I had never told either Anderson or Mrs. Romaine of the intrigue between Mr. Romaine and the widow, Mrs.
And, looking out between the curtains, we beheld the lamps skimming on the smooth ascent. 'Ay, said Romaine, wiping the window-pane that he might see more clearly. 'Ay, that is he by the driving! So he squanders money along the king's highway, the triple idiot! gorging every man he meets with gold for the pleasure of arriving where? Ah, yes, where but a debtor's jail, if not a criminal prison!
It shall, however, henceforth be the great object of my life, to bring one stupendous miscreant to the bar of human justice the Dead Man whose escape from the State Prison was followed by his outrage upon Clinton Romaine, by which the poor boy was forever deprived of the faculty of speech; and 'tis my firm belief that 'twas by his accursed hand my aunt was murdered; she was too elevated in character, and too good a Christian, to commit suicide, and he is the only man in existence who could slay such an excellent and honorable woman!
I tell it you cynically, for you cannot profit by the knowledge; and, if the worst come to the worst, I have good hopes of recovering my own and of ruining you." "You do what you please," answered Romaine; "but I give it you for a piece of good advice, you had best do nothing in the matter.
"The Lord deliver me from the wisdom of laymen!" cried Romaine. "Put myself in the wrong at the beginning of a lawsuit? No, indeed! There was but one thing to do, and I did it, and burned my last cartridge in the doing of it. I stunned him.
Again, the Calvinism of Henry Venn was distinctly that of the later Evangelical school rather than that of Whitefield and Romaine. He was a Calvinist of precisely the same type as Newton, and Scott, and Cecil, and the two Milners. His closing years were very calm and happy.
Toutain, Cités romaines de la Tunisie, p. 79 note: 'Ce qui toutefois est incontestable, c'est que cette disposition d'une régularité artificielle, autour de deux grandes voies exactement orientées et se coupant a angle droit, est très rare dans l'Afrique romaine.
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