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He was what the country people call a 'spoilt priest. Destined by simple and pious parents to take Holy Orders, he got as far as the inside of Maynooth College. While there he had kicked a fellow-student down the whole length of a long corridor for telling tales to the authorities.
Coleridge is an enthusiast on many subjects, and must therefore appear to many to possess faults, and no doubt he has faults, but he has a good heart and a large mass of information with," as his fellow-student condescendingly admits, "superior talents.
"Come in, fellow-student," said she, and held the door wide for me to enter. For the second time I found myself in her little salon, and found everything in the self-same order. "Well," I said, "are you not happy?" She shook her head. "Success is not happiness," she replied, smiling mournfully.
"Mind this," he resumed, "I don't profess to feel any interest in the girl; and I never cared two straws about her parents. At the same time, if you can turn to good account what I am going to say next do it, and welcome. This scandal began in the bragging of a fellow-student of mine at Rome. He was angry with me, and angry with another man, for laughing at him when he declared himself to be Mrs.
Some person she had met in the train apparently, and connected with the C.P.R. A good-looking fellow, a little too sure of himself; but that of course was the Colonial fault. "One of the persons coming this afternoon is an old Montreal fellow-student of mine," the Canadian was saying. "He is going to be a great man some day.
I took two or three turns round the platform devoted to the dancers without discovering my fellow-student, and without seeing any other person with whom I happened to be acquainted at that time. For some reason which I cannot now remember, I was not in my usual good spirits that evening.
The ambassador was asked to honour the fete, but he declined, saying that he had "made up his mind that man was not intended for flying Mahomet had not so willed it." Of one of Robertson's more interesting ascents he himself has left us the following sketch: "I rose in the balloon at nine a.m., accompanied by my fellow-student and countryman, M. Lhoest. We had 140 lbs. of ballast.
Alas! is not the catalogue of his pleasures the more melancholy record of the two? Hopes which sharpen disappointment; visions which cheat while they enrapture; dreams that embitter his waking hours fellow-student, do you envy him these?" "I do; believing that he would not forego them for a life of common-place annoyances and placid pleasures." "Forego them! Never.
But if, for instance the Oxford undergraduate of to-day realizes Rolle, not as a picturesque fourteenth-century hermit, but as a fellow-student another Oxford undergraduate, separated from him only by an interval of time who gave up that university and the career it could offer him, under the compulsion of another Wisdom and another Love, then he re-enters the living past.
Councillor Mikulin was resourceful, and the task not very difficult. Any fellow-student, even the red-nosed one, was perfectly welcome to see Mr. Razumov entering a private house to consult an oculist. Ultimate success depended solely on the revolutionary self-delusion which credited Razumov with a mysterious complicity in the Haldin affair.
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