"I wish," replied Macaulay, "that you had meant it for me, and hit Mr.Adeane." After no long while he removed within the walls of Trinity, and resided first in the centre rooms of Bishop's Hostel, and subsequently in the Old Court, between the Gate and the Chapel.

The door, which once bore his name, is on the ground floor, to the left hand as you face the staircase.

In more recent years, undergraduates who are accustomed to be out after lawful hours have claimed a right of way through the window which looks towards the town;--to the great annoyance of any occupant who is too good-natured to refuse the accommodation to others, and too steady to need it himself.

This power of surreptitious entry had not been discovered in Macaulay's days; and, indeed, he would have cared very little for the privilege of spending his time outside walls which contained within them as many books as even he could read, and more friends than even he could talk to.

Wanting nothing beyond what his college had to give, he revelled in the possession of leisure and liberty, in the almost complete command of his own time, in the power of passing at choice from the most perfect solitude to the most agreeable company.