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Her first letter informed me that she had felt it her duty to tell Stella of the critical condition of Romayne's health. She expressed her sense of my wife's kindness most gratefully and feelingly and at once removed to Paris, to be on the spot if her husband expressed a wish to see her. The two ladies are now staying at the same hotel. I have thus far been detained in London by family affairs.
The poor fellow gratefully kissed my hand when I offered it to him he was not able to speak. I wonder whether I am weak about Arthur? Say a kind word for him, when his conduct comes under notice but pray don't mention this little frailty of mine; and don't suppose I have any sympathy with his weak-minded submission to Mrs. Romayne's prejudices.
To keep his companion's mind in a state of suspense was, in certain emergencies, to exert a useful preparatory influence over a man of Romayne's character. Even when they reached his lodgings, the priest still hesitated to approach the object that he had in view. He made considerate inquiries, in the character of a hospitable man. "They breakfast early at The Retreat," he said.
The banker has promised to write to me, if there is a change in Romayne's life and prospects. And my landlord will take care that I hear of it, in the event of news reaching Rome from the Mission at Arizona. Sixth Extract. St. Germain, March 14. I arrived yesterday.
"I shall send a letter at once to Romayne's hotel," he said. "Inviting him to come here to-day?" her ladyship inquired. "Yes. I shall say I particularly wish to consult him about a picture. Are we to prepare Stella to see him? or would it be better to let the meeting take her by surprise?" "Certainly not!" said Lady Loring. "With her sensitive disposition, I am afraid of taking Stella by surprise.
I don't know what I may think, I don't know what I may do, if you leave me by myself." Father Benwell took a chair by Romayne's side. "It has been my hard duty to grieve and humiliate you," he said. "Do you bear me no ill will?" He held out his hand. Romayne took it as an act of justice, if not as an act of gratitude. "Can I be of any use in advising you?" Father Benwell asked.
Some of Romayne's papers had been burned; others were imprisoned in drawers and cupboards the history of the Origin of Religions had taken its melancholy place among the suspended literary enterprises of the time. Mrs. She yawned perpetually; she read innumerable novels; she corresponded with her friends.
Father Benwell took both Romayne's hands in his, and pressed them fervently. "I am proud of you!" he said. "We shall all be proud of you, when I write word to Rome of what has passed between us. But no, Romayne! this must not be. I admire you, feel with you; and I refuse. On behalf of the Church, I say it I refuse the gift." "Wait a little, Father Benwell! You don't know the state of my affairs.
Consenting to this arrangement, Lady Loring had proceeded alone to the gallery, when Romayne's visit was announced. The minutes passed, and Stella did not appear. It was quite possible that she might shrink from openly presenting herself at the main entrance to the gallery, and might prefer especially if she was not aware of the priest's presence in the room to slip in quietly by the library door.
You tell me that our Reverend Fathers, lately sitting in council on the Vange Abbey affair, are anxious to hear if any positive steps have yet been taken toward the conversion of Romayne. I am happily able to gratify their wishes, as you shall now see. Yesterday, I called at Romayne's hotel to pay one of those occasional visits which help to keep up our acquaintance.
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