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the gentleman nor the Christian was always or necessarily 

 combined with the scholar; and I silently, but moodily, 

 turned away. 



I had scarcely emerged from his college gate, and 

 walked partly up Senate House Passage, when a gentle- 

 man in his academicals crossed my path, and, stopping, 

 asked what I had under my arm. " Nothing, sir, 

 nothing," I replied, my eyes on the ground, and my mind 

 brooding on the wound my pride had received ; I did not 

 stop to observe his benevolvent aspect, neither was I 

 roused from my gloomy mood by the kindness of his 

 speech and manner, but moved to pass on. 



" Stop," he cried — " stop — you forget me, I fear." 



I looked up and recognized the features of one who 

 had been foremost in the University to praise and 

 patronize my maiden effort.^ 



" What are you doing now ? " 



" Nothing." 



" Nothing ? Have you not written anything lately ? 

 You promised me a copy of any future productions long 



ago. 



I immediately handed him one, when he paid me with 

 a coin far above the price set uj^on his purchase. I was 

 about to give him change. 



" No," he said ; " if I like this as well as I did the first, 

 I shall remain your debtor.'' 



How blind are we mortals to the effects of good or evil 

 that spring from accident ; and how prone are we to 

 forget, when the scale of evil or injury appears to be over- 

 loaded, how soon it may be counterpoised. 



^ The Eev. — — Eomilly, Eegistrar of the University. 

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