One had fought a duel with an Ensign in a marching, in consequence of a row at the theatre--another actually kept a buggy and horse at a livery stable in Covent Garden, and might be seen driving any Sunday in Hyde Park with a groom with squared arms and armorial buttons by his side.

Many of the seniors were in love, and showed each other in confidence poems addressed to, or letters and locks of hair received from, young ladies--but Pen, a modest and timid youth, rather envied these than imitated them as yet.

He had not got beyond the theory as yet--the practice of life was all to come.

And by the way, ye tender mothers and sober fathers of Christian families, a prodigious thing that theory of life is as orally learned at a great public school.

Why, if you could hear those boys of fourteen who blush before mothers and sneak off in silence in the presence of their daughters, talking among each other--it would be the women's turn to blush then.