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Such happy natures such excellent hearts there are; though they are few and far between. To Hugh Lillyston Julian owed no little of his happiness. They had been in the same forms together since Julian came, and the friendship between them was never broken.
Shaking off examination reminiscences, he proposed to De Vayne, Kennedy, and Lillyston a bathe in the Iscam, and then a long run across the country. They started at once, laughing and talking incessantly on every subject, except the Clerkland, which was tabooed.
He handed the lines to Lillyston and Owen, and they saw from the happy smile upon his face that no touch of regret or envy marred his present meditations.
It happened that just before coming back from the senate-house, a large Newfoundland had run against him, and his excited imagination had mingled this most recent impression with the vagaries of a temporary madness. "The dog, my dear fellow; why, there's no dog here." Hazlet only cowered farther into the corner. "Here, won't you have some tea?" said Lillyston; "I'll make it for you.
The figure which he took to be Hazlet hastily retreated, and Julian half-persuaded himself that he was mistaken. "Did you see who that was?" asked Lillyston sadly. "Yes," said Julian; "one of the simple ones; `but he knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell." "You must speak to him, Julian." "I will."
He told Kennedy old Harton stories, and asked him about Marlby; he turned the subject to Home, and really interested Kennedy by telling him what kind of a boy Julian had been, and what inseparable friends he had always been with Lillyston, and how admirably he had recited on speech-day, and how stainless his whole life had been, and how vice and temptation seemed to skulk away at his very look.
"What! is this the Mr Lillyston of whom we've heard so much?" asked Mrs Home, with a cordial shake of the hand, while Violet looked up with a quick glance of curiosity and pleasure. "No other," said Hugh, laughing; "and really I feel as if I were an old friend already." "You are so, I assure you," said Mrs Home, "and I hope we shall often meet now."
But won't it be your last evening with your mother and Miss Home?" "Yes; but never mind that." Lillyston shook his head, and bidding the ladies a warm good-bye, left them to enjoy with Julian his first quiet evening in Saint Werner's, Camford. "I must hang my pictures before you go, Violet. I shall want your advice." "Well, let me see," said Violet.
The desire of getting his remove with Julian worked so much with him that he began to rise many places in the examinations; and while Julian was generally among the first few, Lillyston managed to be placed, at any rate, far above the ranks of the undistinguished herd.
Lillyston instructed Julian in the mysteries of fives, racquets, football, and cricket, until he became an adept at them all; and Julian, in return, gave Lillyston very efficient help in work, and inspired him with intellectual tastes for which he felt no little gratitude in after days.
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