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The whole was under the control of the Oxonian, in the appropriate character of Misrule; and I observed that he exercised rather a mischievous sway with his wand over the smaller personages of the pageant. The irruption of this motley crew, with beat of drum, according to ancient custom, was the consummation of uproar and merriment.
Bees, but had afterwards gone to the University. "I was a scholar at St. John's, sir," replied Mr. Cruse, with much dignity. "M'Gabbery, shall we take a stroll across the valley till the ladies are ready?" And so, having sufficiently shown their contempt for the awkward Oxonian, they moved away. "Two very nice fellows, are they not?" said Bertram to Mr. Hunter.
If their manliness and frankness are praised in their father's hearing, he quotes the old Persian maxim, and says, they have been taught "to ride, to shoot, and to speak the truth." It is true, the Oxonian has now and then practised the old gentleman's doctrines a little in the extreme.
He was bustling about, with the perplexed and anxious air of a man who has the oppressive burthen of promoting other people's merriment upon his mind. He had involved himself in a dozen scrapes, in consequence of a politic intrigue, which, by-the-by, Master Simon and the Oxonian were at the bottom of, which had for object the election of the Queen of May.
On our arrival being announced the squire came out to receive us, accompanied by his two other sons one a young officer in the army, home on a leave of absence; the other an Oxonian, just from the university.
I saw that the Oxonian was at the bottom of all this oracular mystery, and was disposed to amuse himself with the general, whose tender approaches to the widow have attracted the notice of the wag.
Already a certain healthy tone and esprit de corps obtains amongst the students, and ceteris paribus a Melbourne graduate is professionally to be preferred to an Oxonian or Cantab., at any rate for colonial work.
A vivid blush again arose to her cheek, her eyelids fell, and her timid words died away in silence. "Take care, take care, my young Lady Isabel," murmured the Oxonian under his breath, as they passed him, "that man is as false as he is fair." "I think he is a rascal," remarked the earl. "I know he is; I know a thing or two about him.
The moment this pageant made its appearance, the harper struck up a flourish; at the conclusion of which the young Oxonian, on receiving a hint from the Squire, gave, with an air of the most comic gravity, an old carol, the first verse of which was as follows: "Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary.
There are a number of flowers there, too, which you cannot see at home. Oxonian No. 2, however, came to the breach: 'We bought a lot of flowers at a shop in Collins Street yesterday, and we are going to send a hamper of ferns home; so that if you won't think it uncivil of us to refuse your kindness, we won't take up your time by going so far.
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