This looked quite exquisite; the affair caused the rector such pleasure, that he presented the poor sinner with the nota bene." "Integer vitae!" broke in the Precentor, and harmoniously followed the other voices.

After this, a young Copenhagener exhibited his dramatic talent by mimicking most illusively the professors of the Academy, and giving their peculiarities, yet in such a good-natured manner that it must have amused even the offended parties themselves.

Now followed the healths--"Vivant omnes hi et hae!" "A health to the prettiest girl!" boldly cried one of the merriest brothers.

"The prettiest girl!" repeated a pair of the younger ones, and pushed their glasses toward each other, whilst the blood rushed to their cheeks at this their boldness, for they had never thought of a beloved being, which, nevertheless, belonged to their new life.

The roundelay now commenced, in which each one must give the Christian name of his lady-love, and assuredly every second youth caught a name out of the air; some, however, repeated a name with a certain palpitation of the heart.