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The fellow grinned, in nowise offended and pocketing fresh gratuities from both Ferrari and myself, departed on new errands for other customers, apparently in high good humor with himself, Antoinetta, and the world in general. Resuming the interrupted conversation I said: "And this poor weak-minded Romani was his death sudden?"
They were little affairs of outposts, mere skirmishes, perhaps, but they paved the way for the larger task. And who now speaks of Romani? Yet it was one of the decisive battles of the war. Here the Turks made a magnificently organised attempt to break through our defences and reach the Canal.
I exclaimed, in feigned alarm. "Of what? against whom? Surely not the Contessa Romani, to whom you were so anxious to introduce me? She has no illness, no infectious disorder? She is not dangerous to life or limb, is she?" Ferrari laughed at the anxiety I displayed for my own bodily safety an anxiety which I managed to render almost comic but he looked somewhat relieved too.
An excellent critic says "Quo saepius eum perlegebam, eo magis me detinuit cum dicendi nitor et brevitas tum perspicacitas iudicii sensusque vorax et ad agendum accommodatus, quibus omnibus genuinam repraesentat nobis civis Romani imaginem."
He leaned forward, and raising his hat with the old courteous grace I knew so well, said politely: "Pardon me, signor, for interrupting you! I knew the late young Count Romani well perhaps better than any man in Naples. I shall be delighted to afford you any information you may seek concerning him."
I thought this to myself, but I answered aloud: "Indeed! I am surprised to hear that. The Romani hauteur had ever to my mind something genial and yielding about it I know my friend was always most gentle to his dependents." The butler here coughed apologetically behind his hand an old trick of his, and one which signified his intense desire to speak.
As the eye glances down the page, Consul Populi Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give. The other great speech of this year, Cicero's defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus of Larinum on a charge of poisoning, has in its own style an equal brilliance of language.
The number of the knights in Rome was also uncertain: and so is it of knights likewise, with us, as at the pleasure of the prince. And whereas the Equites Romani had Equum Publicum of custom bestowed upon them, the knights of England have not so, but bear their own charges in that also, as in other kind of furniture, as armour meet for their defence and service.
While provision was laboriously being made to fit Kantara for its mission as a great base, means had to be prepared to send forward supplies and material to the army in the desert, now feeling its way towards Romani. One of the delights of the Egyptian campaign was that no sooner was one obstacle overcome than another rose up to bar the way.
And yet God knows! they may need more pity than we dream of! But let me to my task. I, Fabio Romani, lately deceased, am about to chronicle the events of one short year a year in which was compressed the agony of a long and tortured life-time! One little year! one sharp thrust from the dagger of Time!
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