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There was only a moment left, they were already taking their places at the elegantly appointed table, and she whispered the rest: "He is in for robbery and manslaughter, your own father the victim. His name is Philip Romeyn, and your woodland nonpareil is his daughter." "Mother!" Adrian's cry was a gasp.
As their eyes met as he saw the one of all the world that he then most dreaded to meet, Laura Romeyn, regarding him with a pale, frightened face, as if he were a monster, a wild beast, nay, worse, a common thief on his way to jail he stopped abruptly, and for a second seemed to meditate some desperate act.
Yes, to a great extent. His self-love was greater than his love for Laura Romeyn. He craved intensely to prove that he was no longer a proper object of her scorn.
Prophesies peace between England and America. Estimates of Morse's character by Dr. Romeyn and Mr. Van Schaick. The father regrets reproof of son for political views. Death of Mrs. Allston. Disagreeable experience in Bristol. More economies. Napoleon I. Peace. Morse did not go to Paris at this time.
It was some time before Haldane could get him quieted down so as to answer all the questions that he was longing to put; but at last he drew out the story in full of Mr. Arnot's forgery and its consequences. "Has Mr. Beaumont married Miss Romeyn?" at last he faltered. "No; I reckon not," said Mr. Growther dryly. "What do you mean?" asked Haldane sharply.
Your life would be a very happy one, Miss Romeyn, if my wishes could make it so;" and the wood-sawyer bowed his farewell with the grace and dignity of a gentleman, in spite of his coarse laborer's garb.
But as the day declined, he found the role of "gloomy grandeur" rather heavy, and he became conscious of the fact that he had scarcely eaten anything for nearly twenty-four hours. Another impulse began to make itself felt that of fulfilling his threat and torturing Miss Romeyn by going to ruin.
John Romeyn Brodhead, in his valuable history of the State of New York, speaking of this illustrious man, says: "The colonists, whom Raleigh sent to the island of Roanoke in 1585, under Grenville and Lane, returned the next year dispirited to England.
He was small and nervous, with a quick eye. He always wore me down after a few hours, because he was restless and untiring. He was named Romeyn Rossiter one of those well-born names. We had met in times before the advent of the telescopic lens, and he used a box camera, tuned to a fiftieth of a second.
Upon his signifying that he could not furnish bail immediately, the judge promptly ordered his committal to the common jail of the city, which happened to be at some distance from the building then employed for the preliminary examinations. It was while on his way to this place of detention that he heard Mrs. Arnot's voice, and encountered her eyes and those of Laura Romeyn.
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