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it six months he asked the Cambridge 

 proprietor if he had any objection to go 

 halves with him in a pipe of port wine, 

 as a whole pipe was more than he well 

 knew what to do with leaving me to 

 draw the inference. 



From all this I was to gather that 

 my situation would be a lucrative one; 

 but the result soon falsified all their 

 pleasing predictions. In the first place, my 

 drag was not known as a Cambridge coach 

 or if known, known only to be avoided, 

 for reasons I have before stated ; there- 

 fore, if a gownsman did travel with us 

 it was by accident or necessity, not from 

 choice. And, again, it was apparent that 

 here, as at Oxford, the lowest description 

 of professionals was most in favour with 

 under-graduates though I was pleased to 

 find that among them there was not so 

 distinguished a character as Monops, or 

 the friend whose antecedents I have 

 touched upon in the last chapter. 



