At last the captain decided things had gone too far. He himself
apparently remained to watch over the linen; but at five o'clock on
the Sunday morning, Aunt Anna, Fleeming, and his mother were rowed
in a pour of rain on board an English merchantman, to suffer 'nine
mortal hours of agonising suspense.' With the end of that time,
peace was restored. On Tuesday morning officers with white flags
appeared on the bastions; then, regiment by regiment, the troops
marched in, two hundred men sleeping on the ground floor of the
Jenkins' house, thirty thousand in all entering the city, but
without disturbance, old La Marmora being a commander of a Roman
sternness.
With the return of quiet, and the reopening of the universities, we
behold a new character, Signor Flaminio: the professors, it
appears, made no attempt upon the Jenkin; and thus readily
italianised the Fleeming. He came well recommended; for their
friend Ruffini was then, or soon after, raised to be the head of
the University; and the professors were very kind and attentive,
possibly to Ruffini's PROTEGE, perhaps also to the first Protestant
student.
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