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Updated: June 12, 2025
Say, is that right that old Hatton's goin' to send you to college? Huh? Je's!" "Yeh," chorused the others, "go on, Buzz. Tell us." Red put his question. "Tell us about the fightin', Buzz. Is it like they say?" It was Buzz Werner's great moment.
When I return, I hope that I shall see leaning on your arm, a fair, a divine young bride. Ever affectionately yours, De Vayne." Kennedy had written home to announce that his name was not to be found in the list of Saint Werner's scholars. The information had disgusted his father exceedingly.
He wrote no books; but by his enthusiastic teaching he gathered as students and sent out as evangelists hundreds of devoted young scientists who rapidly spread his theories through all the countries of Europe. "Unfortunately," says Zittel, "Werner's field observations were limited to a small district, the Erz Mountains and the neighboring parts of Saxony and Bohemia.
Old Gottlieb was too full of his own fears to think for her, and when he drew in his head rather suddenly, it was with a dismal foreboding that Werner's destination in Cologne was direct to the house of Gottlieb Groschen, for purposes only too well to be divined. 'Devil's breeches! muttered Gottlieb; 'look again, Grete, and see if that hell-troop stop the way outside.
I chose the most obtrusively religious man in Saint Werner's, and, in the course of a very short time, I had him, of his own will, roaring drunk." "And what's the inference?" "That what men call religion is half cant, half the accident of circumstances." "Pardon me, you're out in your conclusion; it only shows that Hazlet was a hypocrite, or at the best a weak, vain, ignorant fellow.
"He's gasping for air and it'll be too late in a minute." Then he saw us. "Walter Mackay" he raised Werner's head "push everyone back, please! Give him a chance to breathe!" A thousand thoughts flashed through my head as politely but firmly I widened the space about Kennedy and the director. Was this a case of suicide? Had Werner known we were coming for him?
Several ladies more or less connected with Saint Werner's offered their services to Lady De Vayne, but she would not leave her son, in whose welfare and recovery her whole thoughts were absorbed. And so, gloomily for the son and mother, the Christmas holidays came on, and Saint Werner's was deserted.
After supper he carried water for the garden, against his mother's outraged protests. "What'll folks think!" she said, "you carryin' water for me?" Afterward he took his smart visored cap off the hook and limped down town, his boots and leggings and uniform very spick and span from Ma Werner's expert brushing and rubbing.
"I am very doubtful, after all, Julian, whether I shall be one of the Switzerland party," said Kennedy, with a sigh, as he and Julian were walking round the Saint Werner's gardens one bright evening of the May term.
"Which is the way to Saint Werner's College?" he asked of the waiter. "Straight along, sir," was the reply, and off he started down King's Parade.
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