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Of the steps of this great change in the mind and fortunes of each of them we have no record: intimacies of this kind grow in college out of unnoticed and unremembered talks, agreeing or differing, out of unconscious disclosures of temper and purpose, out of walks and rides and quiet breakfasts and common-room arguments, out of admirations and dislikes, out of letters and criticisms and questions; and nobody can tell afterwards how they have come about.
"Yes, religion is profitable for both worlds," one of them would exhort by the junior common-room fire, "and if you doubt it, look at me; five-and-twenty shillings a week as a draper's assistant was all I had, and no chance of rising.
In any case it seems to me self-evident that a college, whatever its numbers, must have, as its primal and essential units, self-contained groups of not more than 150 students segregated in their own residential quad, with its common-room, refectory and chapel, and with a certain number of faculty members in residence, the whole being united under one "head."
We can wander among the ivy-grown walls which, in the refectory, retain some semblance of their original form, and we can see the picturesque remains of the common-room, the guest-hall, the chapter-house, and the sacristy.
"But do you never feel that the world the Common-room is too much with you sometimes?" "Not exactly in summer, anyhow." Stalky's eye roved contentedly to the window. "Our bounds are pretty big, too, and they leave us to ourselves a good deal." "For example, here am I sitting in your study, very much in your way, eh?" "Indeed you aren't, Padre. Sit down. Don't go, sir.
Seizing it, I bounded out of the room and down the stairs, three steps at a stride. Along the corridor I sped and into the common-room, which at the moment was tolerably full. As I entered by one door, the Marquis was within three paces of the other, leading to the courtyard.
Prout, and the Head, of course, are the only masters senior to us in that way." "Yes, we've changed a good deal in Common-room." "Huh!" said Beetle with a grunt. "They came here, an' they went away to get married. Jolly good riddance, too!" "Doesn't our Beetle hold with matrimony?" "No, Padre; don't make fun of me. I've met chaps in the holidays who've got married house-masters.
I found a company of gentlemen in the common-room, who upon espying my motley when I had thrown off my sodden cloak and hat pressed me, willy-nilly, into amusing them. And so I spent the night at my Fool's trade, giving them drolleries from the works of Boccacci and Sacchetti the horn-books of all jesters.
Then the view would enchant the Signor, because it would be quite new to him! The room should be prepared at once! Would the Signor take supper? Yes, the Signor would take supper. And the Signor went and sat in a remote corner of the common-room, with a newspaper of a week old, pretending to read its contents.
It was no more than in harmony with this habit of mine, that when, next morning in the common-room of the Connetable, I espied Jeanneton, the landlord's daughter, and remarked that she was winsome and shapely, with a complexion that would not have dishonoured a rose-petal, I permitted myself to pinch her dainty cheek. She slapped mine in return, and in this pleasant manner we became acquainted.
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