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Updated: August 14, 2024
But to the mere passer-by, who is not a professional scholar and has not recently re-perused the history of Rome, the details have no significance. All he sees on this searched and scoured spot is a city's cemetery where old exhumed stones are whitening, and whence rises the intense sadness that envelops dead nations.
He gave forth a prolonged whistle, got up, smote upon his thigh, and exclaimed with deep-toned emphasis "The rascal!" Then he sat down again and re-perused the letter, with a variety of expression on his face that might have recalled the typical April day, minus the tears. "The rascal!" he repeated, as he finished the second reading of the letter and thrust it into his pocket.
He perused and re-perused it; then opened, one after another, the remainder that lay scattered before him. Their contents seemed to agitate him exceedingly; as he walked up and down the room with hasty strides, muttering angrily to himself, and occasionally returning to the desk to re-peruse the letters which had so strangely excited him.
We think we should share with our readers a recent one which, when we read it in the detail, impossible to be repeated here, made us smile. Every time we re-perused it we thought it, as Alice in Wonderland said, "curiouser and curiouser." Our readers are not strangers to the name and fame of the leading editor of the chief paper in Georgia.
But when Cleveland left him, Maltravers unlocked his desk, and re-perused the last letter he had received from the Unknown. The /last/ letter! yes, those epistles had now become frequent.
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