270 CIVILITY. 



We had not ascended Henley Hill before 

 I discovered that the two gentlemen were 

 not on the best terms with each other the 

 one endeavoured to impart his feelings on 

 the beauty of the scenery, while pointing 

 out familiar objects of admiration; the 

 other would pout, and frown, and snub 

 sometimes looking on with a sulky and 

 insulting air, at others denounce in gross 

 language the kind and conciliatory man- 

 ner of his senior. 



It did not take me long to discover 

 that they were Father and son, and with 

 some reason I surmised that the Father 

 was a clergyman, and had been to Ox- 

 ford to remove his hopeful, who had been 

 placed under the ban of the University. 

 All attempts on the part of the one 

 to divest or allure the thoughts of the 

 other from the loss of some fancied selfish 

 enjoyment, or the sense of deserved 

 degradation, were only met with angry 



