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Yet with what a dreamy horror you wake on mornings of snow to that tinkling alarum! and glide in the cold and darkness under the shadow of the college-walls, shuddering under the sharp gusts that come sweeping between the buildings, and afterward, gathering yourself up in your cloak, watch in a sleepy, listless maze the flickering lamps that hang around the dreary chapel!
"Take me by some long roundabout way," said Searle, "so that I may see as many college-walls as possible." "You know," I asked of our attendant, "all these wonderful ins and outs?" "I ought to, sir," he said, after a moment, with pregnant gravity. And as we were passing one of the colleges, "That used to be my place," he added.
Rich benchers and Judges wishing for more commodious quarters than they could obtain at any cost within college-walls, erected mansions in the immediate vicinity of their Inns; and their example was followed by less exalted and less opulent members of the bar and judicial bench.
These addresses taken from a list of legal addresses lying before the writer indicate with sufficient clearness the quarter of the town in which Charles II.'s lawyers mostly resided. Under Charles II. the population of the Inns was such that barristers wishing to marry could not easily obtain commodious quarters within College-walls.
But to strike challenge, draw, or fight, should be more severely punished; the offender to be declared no gentleman, his name posted up at the college-gate, his person expelled the house, and to be pumped as a rake if ever he is taken within the college-walls.
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