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Now a girl I know----" "They fairly fell upon one another's necks and hugged.

Talk of the fatted calf! Now if I'd asked the governor----" Around him there came, with a poignancy, a beauty, that, now that he was to lose it all, was like a wound, the wonder of this Cambridge.

Then he had it, the marvellous moment! On the other side of the window the still court, a few twinkling lights, the powdering snow--and here the vitality, the energy, the glowing sense of two thousand souls marching together upon Life and seizing it, with a shout, lifting it, stepping out with it as though it were one long glory! Afterwards what matter?
There had been the moment, never to be forgotten! Cambridge, the beautiful threshold! For an instant the sense of his own forthcoming journey--away from life, as it seemed to him--caught him as he sat there.

"What will God do with me ?" From the outer world through the whispering snow, he caught the echo of the Voice--"My Son.