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comfort that awaited him. But as he approached her home an indescribable apprehension took possession of him; and it was almost reluctantly that he ascended the steps and rang the bell. His welcome was apparently such as many that he had received before, but his apprehension was increased by what he imagined to be a coldness and reserve in her manner.
After the usual exchange of general and desultory remarks, they seated themselves before the open fireplace as they had often done before; but for a long time they sat intently gazing at the glowing coals and neither spoke. At last he broke the silence: "You know it all," he said, "yet I hope that there is one person to whom I can come for love and sympathy." She did not answer him, but sat motionless, still intently gazing into the fire. He arose and taking one of her hands in his, spoke in a tone which betrayed the emotion he felt: "I would not think of asking you to be the same to me that you have been in the past, for I love you far too well to ask you to share with me any humiliation or disgrace, but surely you who have for the last two years known my every thought and deed, will not think less of me now; surely you, too, will not turn against me." He stood looking down upon her, waiting for the answer which meant so much to him.
"No," she said at last, in slow, measured tones, "I am not turning against you, but then the disgrace." The hand which he held was dropped, and with bowed head he slowly left the room.
Little did he think, as he gloomily hastened along the deserted streets in the slowly descending rain, that the girl he was at that moment so bitterly denouncing, was still sitting before the fireplace, but with her face in her hands—with bowed head—she was silently weeping.
The past year, 1892, was the year 7,910,341 in China. - Ex.
There is a bill before the legislature of Illinois to lengthen the courses in the law schools from two to three years.
The erection of a memorial library to the late James G. Blaine is being talked of by the Bate's alumni.
The faculty of the University of Minnesota decided to allow an address by some distinguished speaker to take the place of orations by the graduates on commencement day.
The remarkably large "editorial board" which heads the columns of a great many college papers is well "taken off" by Puck:
The Baker Index has the picture of Mert Rice as a frontispiece this month, and also his oration on Government. Rice is a great man at Baker this year—by the way, he is editor of the Index.
Visitor. "What is that great crowd of students assembled in that hall? One of the college societies I presume?"
College man. "Oh, no; that's a meeting of the board of editors of our college paper."
"More thinking and less imitation is one of the greatest needs of the average student. Honest and sincere efforts to develope and express one's own mind in matters in which it is interested, are worth more than the most skillful adaptations of borrowed thoughts or common place utterances regarding questions beyond one's scope."—Ex.
A College Boy.
In the Freshman class he entered,
Looking green, as oft they do,
But he all his powers centered
On the thought of getting through
Here he studied late and early,
In his class he led them all,
In the gym. he was a leader—
Best debater in the hall.
Then the Sophomore and Junior,
Took the prizes as they came;
Graduated with the Seniors;
Well upon the road to fame.
Ten years pass—where is our hero?
Sure he was congress born—
Texas,
-Pharos.