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They liked each other very much, and Julian rapidly began to regard Montagu as a real friend. In order to see as much of each other as possible, they all agreed to take a four-oar on the Saturday morning, and row to Elnham; at Elnham they dined, and spent two pleasant hours in visiting the beautiful cathedral, so that they did not get back to Camford till eleven at night.
It hardly ruffled the calm stream of his self-complacency, and, for some reasons, he was rather glad that it had happened. He did not like Camford; he had never taken to reading, and being thus debarred from all intellectual pleasures, he had grown thoroughly tired of late breakfasts, boating on the muddy Iscam, noisy wines, and interminable whist parties.
How often those evenings recurred to all their memories in future days. Soon after the Kennedys had come, Julian received from Camford the Christmas college-list. He had again won a first class, but Kennedy's name, much to his vexation, appeared only in the third. "How is it that Edward is only in the third class?" asked Violet of Julian for, of course, she had seen the list.
I think the rooms of a Camford undergraduate are about the last place where conversation ever flags; and when men like Kennedy, Owen, Julian, and Lillyston meet, it is perhaps more genuinely earnest and interesting than in any other time or place.
So in due time Julian packed up all his books and prizes, and bade farewell to his friends, and turned his back on Camford. It is as impossible to leave one's college without emotion as it is to enter it, and the tears often started to Julian's eyes as the train whirled him off to Elstan. He had cause, if any man ever had, to look back to Camford with regret and love.
"Well, well, if you must vanish to Elstan, do. At any rate, remember your old Camford friends, and let us hear of you sometimes? I suppose you'll keep on your Fellowship at least for a year?" "Insidious questioner!" said Julian; "no, I hope to be married very soon. You shall come down and see love in a cottage." "Aha, I see it all now," said Mr Admer, with a sigh. "Nay, you mustn't sigh.
"Let me enjoy unbroken happiness for a time, and leave the bitter future to itself." "Bitter, Edward? but why bitter? Julian always seems to me so happy at Camford." "Yes, Julian is, and so are all who deserve to be." "Then you must be happy too, Edward." His only answer was a sigh. "Ah, Violet, pray talk to me of anything but Camford."
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