To exchange comments with them would be a keen delight.

As for him--he had a shop-boy on one hand and a grocer's wife on the other.
By the end he had fallen into fatigue.

Amid clamour of easily-won applause he made his way into the street, to find himself in a heavy downpour of rain.

Having no umbrella, he looked about for a sheltered station, and the glare of a neighbouring public-house caught his eye; he was thirsty, and might as well refresh body and spirit with a glass of beer, an unwonted indulgence which had the pleasant semblance of dissipation.

Arrived at the bar he came upon two acquaintances, who, to judge by their flushed cheeks and excited voices, had been celebrating jovially the close of their academic labours.