The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making

too fine an organization to have been exposed to the blunders of the scholastic managers; for his course had exhibited signs of no less than the genius

hrice caught reading Voltaire. If criticism of any of the doctrines of Catholic piety was a sin to be expiated hardly even by months of penance: there was nothing sacred to his inquiries, from the authority of the Popes of Avignon to the stigma miracle of the Seraphic St. Francis. He was an enfant terrible; Revolutionist Rousseau had infected him; Victor Hugo the Excommunicate was his literary idol;

h with the student himself, towards the approach of his graduation, when an article appeared in that unpardonable sheet La Lanterne du Progrès, acutely describing and discussing the defects o

closed doors, his disappearance into the mysterious Office to confront the Directeur alone, and the intervie

wept away the whole of the prizes, with the Dux Medal of the school, notwithstanding his impe

ect. All through these two years and a half of College progress since, he had been astonishing us with similar terrible application and results. Professors encouraged, friend

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e-who was his friend, and whom everybody, and especially Quinet, venerate

ou mayst wander, poor child; yet carry thou at least in thy heart ever love of what thou seest to be good, and res