At least I should have said
so, guessing from the odors he breathed along with his liberal sentiments.
Something of the character of a college-town is observable nearly always
in the presence of the students, who confound certain traditional ideas of
students by their quietude of costume and manner, and whom Padua or
Heidelberg would hardly know, but who nevertheless betray that they are
banded to--
"Scorn delights and live laborious days,"
by a uniformity in the cut of their trousers, or a clannishness of cane or
scarf, or a talk of boats and base-ball held among themselves. One cannot
see them without pleasure and kindness; and it is no wonder that their
young-lady acquaintances brighten so to recognize them on the horse-cars.
There is much good fortune in the world, but none better than being an
undergraduate twenty years old, hale, handsome, fashionably dressed, with
the whole promise of life before: it's a state of things to disarm even
envy. With so much youth forever in her heart, it must be hard for our
Charlesbridge to grow old: the generations arise and pass away but in her
veins is still this tide of warm blood, century in and century out, so
much the same from one age to another that it would be hardy to say it was
not still one youthfulness.
Pages:
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134