Try one more glass of the '47 port.

Stop; you'll excuse me; I am a man of business; I don't doubt your word; Heaven forbid! but, do you happen to have any document you can produce, in further confirmation of what you state; namely, that you have passed your final examination at the University ?" "Certainly, sir;" replied young Wardlaw.

"My Testamur." "What is that ?" The young gentleman put his hand in his pocket and produced his Testamur, or "We bear witness"; a short printed document in Latin, which may be thus translated: "We bear witness that Arthur Wardlaw, of St.Luke's College, has answered our questions in humane letters.
"GEORGE RICHARDSON, "ARTHUR SMYTHE, "EDWARD MERIVALE, _"Examiners."_ Wardlaw senior took it, laid it beside him on the table, inspected it with his double eye-glass, and, not knowing a word of Latin, was mightily impressed, and his respect for his son rose forty or forty-five per cent.
"Very well, sir," said he.

"Now listen to me.

Perhaps it was an old man's fancy; but I have often seen in the world what a stamp these universities put upon a man.