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PROP'ESSOR OWEN 
CH. III. 
to take away from the character he represents till 
his part is ended. Their action is graceful but 
formal, and has a sameness necessarily dependent 
on its artificial acquisition which prevents the 
manifestation of individual differences. They 
raise the right arm on minor emphasis, and both 
arms when a climax occurs. The King testified 
his pleasure by tapping the arm of his chair and 
a slight* inclination of his head ; and he re- 
peatedly turned to Dr. Goodall to note the 
names of the speakers. At the conclusion of the 
orations he rose, bowed first to the heads of the 
College, then to the scholars, and lastly turned 
again to the visitors and his own suite, who then 
rose. The lords in waiting then walked back- 
wards before the King till he came to the middle 
of the open space. There Dr. Goodall an- 
nounced that, at His Majesty’s request, an addi- 
tional week was granted to the Easter holidays, 
if the boys did not object. This was received 
with renewed and deafening cheers, amid which 
the royal party retired as they had entered. 
‘ I was glad to see that the cheers were again 
repeated as Dr. Keate passed down the alley, 
which he returned with some good-humoured 
nods which seemed to say, “ Yes! you young 
rogues, you may thank me for flogging into you all 
the good you are ever likely to get in this world.” ’ ‘ 
‘ The conclusion of this but was rewritten by Owen 
letter had apparently been lost, himself after 1856 ! 
