Who so happy then as Mr Romer! But even among the pure there is room for envy and detraction.

Mr Romer had not yet ceased to wonder at new worlds, as he skimmed among the islands of that southern ocean, before the edict had gone forth for his return.
There were men sitting in that huge court of Parliament on whose breasts it lay as an intolerable burden, that England should be represented among the antipodes by one who had tampered with the purity of the franchise.

For them there was no rest till this great disgrace should be wiped out and atoned for.

Men they were of that calibre, that the slightest reflection on them of such a stigma seemed to themselves to blacken their own character.

They could not break bread with satisfaction till Mr Romer was recalled.