144 EXPULSION. 



" But you know what has happened ? " 



"Yes," I replied, " and very sorry I feel 

 for him and his connections." 



" You know all about it, then ?" 



The young gentleman had been expelled 

 the University for knocking down one of 

 the Proctors when in the exercise of his 

 duty. 



" Do you know what has become of him, 

 or where he is gone ? " he inquired. 



" No, I really do not, though the lamen- 

 table affair is the general topic of conver- 

 sation both of Town and Gown." 



He then asked me to stop the up-coaches 

 from Cambridge, and enquire if he was 

 among the passengers, which I did but 

 they had no such person. As we pro- 

 ceeded, he every now and then gave vent 

 to feelings that seemed almost to overpower 

 him. First he would condemn the conduct 

 of his son as most culpable, as unworthy 

 the scion of an ancient family as well as 

 the son of a distinguished naval officer, as 



