dogs all that may be gathered from the 

 editing of some of Plato's Dialogues. An 

 alarmed, but adjuring, porter followed at a 

 safe distance and Jack was eventually coaxed 

 out. That, however, was an exception. At 

 other times he did not fail to curl himself up 

 in a corner outside the gateway and to wait 

 there for his master without attempting a 

 trespass. Many tried to lure him in, but the 

 ardor civium prava jubentium had no effect 

 upon him. Years afterwards when I took him 

 to revisit Cambridge he remembered every- 

 thing, and when I made to enter Trinity he 

 trotted on in advance and lay down con- 

 tentedly in the old corner. 

 S8 Removed from Cambridge he made his 

 headquarters in a London house, to the mis- 

 tress of which he attached himself with a 

 devotion that drew part of its ardour, I am 

 sure, from the monastic seclusion of his former 

 life in a University. She, indeed, was formed 

 by nature to be the friend of dogs. She 

 humoured him to the top of his bent and 

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