Frank Fairlegh

for words

is loved o

not choos

o lonely

rtfe

water come d

hing, and splash

all o'er, with

e water comes d

uth

y not coming down till eleven o'cloc

ays to have its breakfast in

etty square collar round i

great gal," a

inued Cumberland, "and desired me to speak seriously to you on

very well, why I could not come down, and I don't think i

it is quite affecting," said Coleman, wiping his eyes with M

awless; "depend upon it, he thinks it was all pretence, and he can't bear anything of that sort; that was why he began spinning him that long yarn about 'meriting his app

hard lines to construe,

es' upon him if he do

your puns are enough to mak

e waiting for me down at Snaffles's, and I am going to ride over to Hookley; there's a pigeon-match coming off to-day between Clayton, of the Lancers-

land, "no, I am goin

he left the room, making me a very low obeisance; Coleman taking the trouble to open the door again after he had gone out, to beg, "that, if I were going to write to my mother, I would tell her, with his lo

mouth upon me also, so I had but died with my faith in them unshaken. Still, although such sorrows as these may have produced a more deep and lasting effect, I do not remember ever to have felt more thoroughly desolate than upon the present occasion. The last scene, though trifling in itself, had made a great impression upon me, from the fact that it proved, as I considered, the animus of the pupils towards me. "Every man's hand was against me." Even the oaf Mullins might insult me with impunity; secure that, in so doing, if in nothing else, he would be supported by the rest. Then I had offended my tutor, all my predilections in whose favour had returned with double force, since I had satisfied myself that he was not addicted to the commission of petty larceny; offended him by allowing him to suppose that I had practised a mean deception upon him. Moreover, it was impossible to explain my conduct to him without showing up Coleman, an extreme measure for which I was by no means prepared. Besides, every one would think, if I were to do so, that I was actuated by a paltry spirit of malice, and tha

wns, old fellow?-'never say di

rnithological and botanical existence in studying intently certain fishy-looking birds, and a cannon-ball tree, which form the leading feature of the landscape in his vicinity. With regard to expression, however, Coleman had a decided advantage over the Chinese horticulturist, for, whereas the countenance of the latter gentleman expresses (if indeed it can be said to expr

re, and the unkind-that is, the odd way in which Lawless and the rest of you seem to behave to me, treating me

like that comes into my head, do it I must. Oh! I get into no end of scrapes that way! Why it was but the other day I put a piece of cobbler's wax on the seat of Mildman's chair, and ruined his best Sunday-going sit-upons; he knew, too, who did it, I'm sure, for the next day he gave me a d

ody when I know it's only fun; the thing I am afraid of now is, that Dr. Mildm

said Coleman, "but we'll get Thomas to tell him what

replied I; "but will not Dr. Mi

there's real necessity for it; he's as good a fellow

just the sort of person one should wish one's tutor to be. But about Cumber

o much of that as I was obliged to bear; you are a good head taller than I am-let's look at your arm; it would be all the

d I; "how do you mean?-what

the boxing-gloves; and when you know how to use your

m driven to that," replied I; "I neve

vents there is no harm in learning to use your fists; a man

you have not told me anything of Cumberl

ot so much so as I should be, I suspect; but Cumberland is too bad even for me; besides, there's no fun in what he does, and then he's such a humbug-not straightforward and honest, you know. Lawless would not be

fidence," replied I; "but what do you mean when y

meant by the 'board of g

puzzl

oleman, sinking his voice almost

and that an acquaintance of Coleman's, who knew him, said he was a capital fellow, but very odd-though in what the oddity consisted did not appear. Moreover, Coleman confirmed me in my preconceived idea, that Mullins's genius lay at present chiefly in the eating, drinking, and sleeping line-adding that, in his opinion, he bore a striking resemblance to those somewhat dissimilar articles, a muff and a spoon. In converse such as this, the time s

ce of inattention I was rewarded by a deluge of water, which wetted me from head to foot, and a violent blow on the shoulder, which stretched me on the ground in the midst of a puddle. That I may not keep the reader in suspense I will at once inform him that I was indebted for this agreeable surprise to the kindness and skill of Lawless, who, having returned from his pigeon-match half-an-hour sooner than was necessary, had devoted it

e," cried Lawless, who

sudden and unexpected had been the shock that I had remained for a moment just as I had f

ank you for that," said

"what little trouble I had in making the arrangement

row," whispered I to Coleman-to which he

particularly as you will have to find out 'how t

ildman told us that we should have the whole of the next day to ourselves, as he was obliged to go to London on business, and should not return till the middle of the day following-an announcement which seemed to afford great satisfact