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 content- 

 edly in the old corner. 



% Removed from Cambridge he made his 

 headquarters in a London house, to the mis- 

 tress of which he attached himself with a de- 

 votion 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 hu- 

 moured him to the top of his bent and loved 

 him. Yet he sometimes treated her without 

 discretion, for he had a passion for carrying 

 things in his mouth, and her parasols were 

 usually sacrificed to his irrepressible requests. 

 Once, when she returned from a drive he met 

 her in the street, and, as she had no parasol, 

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