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Romaine and I within the chaise and Rowley perched upon the dickey I told the lawyer of our progress from Aylesbury to Kirkby-Lonsdale. He took snuff. "Forsitan et hæc olim that Rowley of yours seems a good-hearted lad, and less of a fool than he looks. The next time I have to travel post with an impatient lover, I'll take a leaf out of his book and buy me a flageolet."
So do I the theory of Evolution." By a leading question or two, Miss Derwent set her companion talking at large of Trafford Romaine, his views and policies. The greatest man in the Empire! he declared. The only man, in fact, who held the true Imperial conception, and had genius to inspire multitudes with his own zeal.
But here was I, an Englishman, already, in legal but inaccurate phrase, a "naturalised" one, having, as Mr. Romaine put it, a stake in the country, not to speak of a nascent interest in its game-laws and the local administration of justice. In short, here was a situation to tickle a casuist. It did not, I may say, tickle me in the least, but played the mischief with my peace.
I chose the name of Ramornie, I imagine from its likeness to Romaine; Rowley, from an irresistible conversion of ideas, I dubbed Gammon. His distress was laughable to witness; his own choice of an unassuming nickname had been Claude Duval!
New York City, at one time, owned a very large area of land which was fraudulently granted or sold to private individuals. Considerable of this granting or selling was done during the years when the corrupt Benjamin Romaine was City Controller.
Poor little mortal, a twelvemonth out of round jackets, I did not in the least know who God was, or what was salvation. On entering the college I signed the Thirty-nine Articles, excepting two or three at most; for the Countess, so far as her theology went, was always Anglican. One of her chaplains was William Romaine, the famous incumbent of St.
'In short, sir, this is a matter of feeling, I concluded, 'and nothing will prevent my going to Edinburgh. If I had fired a pistol in his ear he could not have been more startled. 'To Edinburgh? he repeated. 'Edinburgh? where the very paving- stones know you! 'Then is the murder out! said I. 'But, Mr. Romaine, is there not sometimes safety in boldness?
You know what a subordinate gets by officiousness; if I can trust my memory, old Romaine has not at all the face that I should care to see in anger; and I venture to predict surprising results upon your weekly salary if you are paid by the week, that is.
He had been left a widower a few years before, during the war his son De Courcy died of fever, Romaine fell in battle, and his sole surviving daughter lost her life through diphtheria contracted in a soldiers' hospital. The family had sunk into actual poverty; the shock of sorrows and disappointment broke the old man's spirit.
"No, sir," he returned, speaking this time in English; "I am not 'born, as you call it, and must content myself with dying, of which I am equally susceptible with the best of you. My name is Mr. Romaine Daniel Romaine a solicitor of London city, at your service; and, what will perhaps interest you more, I am here at the request of your great-uncle, the Count." "What!"
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