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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. III. 
settled our operations for the day, proposing, first, 
to go to Windsor Church and hear Milman the 
poet preach a charity sermon ; second, to go and 
hear the concluding anthem at the Chapel Royal 
and see the King and Queen come out ; third, walk 
on the terrace ; fourth, return and lunch ; fifth, go 
to Eton College Chapel ; sixth, go again to the 
terrace and hear the bands play ; seventh, return 
and dine, after which I was not sorry that a shower 
of rain confined us at home, for I felt rather stiff 
The chanting at Eton Chapel was beautiful. I sat 
in one of the stalls next the reader ; opposite me 
was Dr. Keate, the justly dreaded Head-master, 
the sight of whose countenance is said to strike 
terror into the boys long after they have left 
school, and truly it is awful. When service is over 
the boys remain till they have permission to go 
out, and they press forward in a dense mass in the 
body of the chapel opposite the Master’s seat 
waiting for the word of command. 
‘ After breakfast on Monday , morning we 
went to Eton College, but without any certain 
plan of getting into the schoolroom to see the 
ceremony of breaking up. Two companies of 
Foot Guards had piled their arms in the outer 
court ready to receive their Majesties, and a 
detachment of the Blues were parading up and 
down the road in front of the building. The 
groups of boys were scattered about planning 
their holiday amusements and modes of de- 
