CHAPTER XXXIV.
As it happened, no one but Alec had come up from Glamerton that year.
He did not know one of his fellow-students.

There were very few in the first class indeed who had had any previous acquaintance with each other.

But before three days were over like had begun to draw to like, and opposites to their natural opposites.

These mutual attractions, however, were considerably influenced by the social sphere, as indicated by style of dress, speech, and manners, in which each had been accustomed to move.

Some of the youths were of the lowliest origin--the sons of ploughmen and small country shopkeepers; shock-headed lads, with much of the looks and manners of year-old bullocks, mostly with freckled faces and a certain general irresponsiveness of feature, soon to vanish as the mental and nervous motions became more frequent and rapid, working the stiff clay of their faces into a readier obedience to the indwelling plasticity.