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His walk, usually so erect and gay as he went across the court the tune he used to hum so merrily in the sunshine and the bright open glance of recognition with which he passed his acquaintances and friends, were gone to-day. He shuffled silently along the cloisters with downcast eyes. Hall-time would be the time to know whether Brogten had seen him and betrayed him.
But Kennedy sat there passively, and when Brogten had gone away whistling "The Rat-catcher's Daughter," he leant his head upon his hand, and his thoughts wandered away to Violet Home. O holy, ennobling, purifying love! He felt that if he had known Violet before, he should not now have been in Brogten's power.
"I hate that kind of fellow," said Brogten, loud enough for the friends to hear, as they rose from the table; "fellows who think themselves everybody's superiors, and walk with their noses in the air." "I wonder that you will still be talking, Brogten; nobody marks you," said Lillyston, treating with the profoundest indifference a stupid calumny.
"Nobody asked you, sir, she said," retorted Brogten rudely; "if it had been some sentimental humbug, I dare say you'd have mooned about it long enough." "Better, at any rate, than some of your low stories, Brogten," said Lillyston, firing up on his friend's behalf. "I don't know. I like something manly." "Vice and manliness being identical, then, according to your notions?" said Lillyston.
"Let's cut the scoundrel's ropes," said Brogten between his teeth; and at once the three darted forward at full speed, at the very instant that the sharp crack of the final signal-gun was heard. It so happened that Julian and Lillyston had started rather late for the races, and had come up with the barge just as it had first neglected the summons of Bruce and Fitzurse.
"Confound the grimy idiot; doesn't he hear?" said Bruce, turning red and pale with excitement as he thought of the money he had at stake, and remembered that the skiff on which all his hopes lay was first in order, and would therefore be most likely to suffer by any momentary confusion. "Come, Brogten, let's stop him somehow before it's too late."
Community of danger, consciousness of obligation, blotted out all evil memories; and to have stood side by side together on the very brink of the precipice of death was a bond of union which could not be ignored or set aside. That night, in spite of bygones, the feeling of those three young men for each other was of the kindliest cast. "Won't you stay to tea, Brogten?" said Kennedy.
You did it so well that Grayson said, you couldn't have done the paper better if you had seen it beforehand." "I say, Kennedy, you must have come out swell, then," said D'Acres, "for Grayson said just the same thing to me." "How very odd," said Brogten, affectedly. "You didn't see the papers beforehand, Kennedy did you?"
After a word of hurried thanks to the miller for saving their lives, they began to turn their whole attention to the half-drowned man, and to apply the well-known remedies for restoring extinct animation. "Good heavens," said Julian, "it is Brogten!" "Brogten?" said Kennedy; he looked on the face, and whispered half-aloud, "Thank God!"
He thought over their common acquaintances, and at last fixed on Kennedy as the likeliest man on whom he could depend to secure another meeting. Yet he hardly liked to suggest that Kennedy should give a wine-party, and ask De Vayne and himself; so that he was rather puzzled. "I say, Brogten, how is it that we are always asking Kennedy to our rooms, and he so very seldom asks us?"
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