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The Students.
THE STUDENTS .
BY BROTHER J . F . SMITH , Author ofthe Jesuit , Siege of Colchester , Songs ofthe Ocean , Sje . djc . " How beautiful ! " exclaimed Herbert Chedworth to his companion , as they stood watching the effect produced by the light from the high altar streaming through the richly stained windows of King ' s College
Chapel . " But you are silent , Mark ; what has entranced you ?" "Nothing , " replied his friend , starting from his reverie ; "I was but contemplating the scene before me , and thinking that the vesper service would be ended ere we reach the house of Master VValters ; remember , you promised to be there by eight . " " True , " said Herbert , smiling at Ids own forgctfulness ; " but is it not strange that you should be the first to recollect it ? Mine is a wild heart" he continued ; " there is room
, in it for friendship , love of nature , and a still warmer passion . I have been so happy in your society , have so enjoyed the calm beauty of the evening , the lovely scene before me , that for awhile I forgot even my pretty Alice . Tell me , shall we proceed by tbe lodge , or wait till the service be ended ? the boatman will then come to chain his boat for the night , and set us over . " "E'en as you list , Herbert ; and till old Charon comes I shall sit upon the bank and listen to the fading chaunt
of the choir , as it comes sighing on the breeze . Will you not take a seat beside me ? " " Willingly , " replied his companion , throwing himself on the ground ; here we can watch the procession from the chapel , and enjoy the calm beauty of the evening . Hark , to the benediction . " As he spoke , the following chaunt was plainly heard above the breeze : —
" Avc verum corpus natum De Maria Virgine . Vere passum , immolatum , Cruce pro homine . Cujus latus perforatum Unda fluxit et sanguine , Esto nobis prtegustatum Mortis in examine . "
The friends , both students of Gonville Hall , were seated on the ground opposite King ' s College ; the place were they were sitting was at that time half overgrown with brushwood , and unconnected by those light elegant arches witli which modern taste and convenience have since adorned the silver Cam . Nothing could be more dissimilar than the characters of the two students . Herbert was mild , gentle , and affectionate in his disposition , steady in his friendships , possessed with a
deep sense of relig ion and an enthusiastic love ofthe arts ; he sang with taste , and his chamber , crowded with pictures , busts , casts , and antiquities , resembled the studio of an Italian painter mere than the cell of ; i Cambridge student . Mark Wayward , on the contrary , was a being in whom the principles of good and evil were blended more than equally ; his passions were his master , his reason too often their slave . When a mere boy he had travelled throush Germany , and imbibed much of the scepticism
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The Students.
THE STUDENTS .
BY BROTHER J . F . SMITH , Author ofthe Jesuit , Siege of Colchester , Songs ofthe Ocean , Sje . djc . " How beautiful ! " exclaimed Herbert Chedworth to his companion , as they stood watching the effect produced by the light from the high altar streaming through the richly stained windows of King ' s College
Chapel . " But you are silent , Mark ; what has entranced you ?" "Nothing , " replied his friend , starting from his reverie ; "I was but contemplating the scene before me , and thinking that the vesper service would be ended ere we reach the house of Master VValters ; remember , you promised to be there by eight . " " True , " said Herbert , smiling at Ids own forgctfulness ; " but is it not strange that you should be the first to recollect it ? Mine is a wild heart" he continued ; " there is room
, in it for friendship , love of nature , and a still warmer passion . I have been so happy in your society , have so enjoyed the calm beauty of the evening , the lovely scene before me , that for awhile I forgot even my pretty Alice . Tell me , shall we proceed by tbe lodge , or wait till the service be ended ? the boatman will then come to chain his boat for the night , and set us over . " "E'en as you list , Herbert ; and till old Charon comes I shall sit upon the bank and listen to the fading chaunt
of the choir , as it comes sighing on the breeze . Will you not take a seat beside me ? " " Willingly , " replied his companion , throwing himself on the ground ; here we can watch the procession from the chapel , and enjoy the calm beauty of the evening . Hark , to the benediction . " As he spoke , the following chaunt was plainly heard above the breeze : —
" Avc verum corpus natum De Maria Virgine . Vere passum , immolatum , Cruce pro homine . Cujus latus perforatum Unda fluxit et sanguine , Esto nobis prtegustatum Mortis in examine . "
The friends , both students of Gonville Hall , were seated on the ground opposite King ' s College ; the place were they were sitting was at that time half overgrown with brushwood , and unconnected by those light elegant arches witli which modern taste and convenience have since adorned the silver Cam . Nothing could be more dissimilar than the characters of the two students . Herbert was mild , gentle , and affectionate in his disposition , steady in his friendships , possessed with a
deep sense of relig ion and an enthusiastic love ofthe arts ; he sang with taste , and his chamber , crowded with pictures , busts , casts , and antiquities , resembled the studio of an Italian painter mere than the cell of ; i Cambridge student . Mark Wayward , on the contrary , was a being in whom the principles of good and evil were blended more than equally ; his passions were his master , his reason too often their slave . When a mere boy he had travelled throush Germany , and imbibed much of the scepticism