Vivian Grey

es of Burnsley Vicarage, and about fifty young devils were preparing to quiz the newco

rowled Barlow primus. This last exclamation was, however, a scandalous libel, for certainly no being ever stood in

e curiosity of his co-mates being in a great degree satisfied at the time when that curiosity could not personally annoy him, the new-comer was

ool. He was “so dashing! so devilish good-tempered! so completely up to everything!” The magnates of the land were certainly rather jealous of his success, but their very sneer

of universal commendation. Some young lads made copies of these productions, to enrich, at the Christmas holidays, their sisters’ albums; while the whole school were scribbling embryo prize-poems, epics of twenty lines on “the Ruins of Paestum” and “the Temple of Minerva;” “Agrigentum,” and “the Cascade of Terni.” Vivian’s productions at this time would probably have been rejected by the commonest twopenny publication about town, yet they turned the brain of the whole school; while fellows who were writing Latin Dissertations and Greek Odes, which might have made the fortune of the Cla

nvy the Minister of England. If any captain of Eton or praefect of Winchester be reading these pages, let him dispassionately consider in what situation of life he can rationally expect that it will be in his power to ex

slight accomplishments were the standard of all perfection, his sayings were the soul of all good fellowship, and his opi

standing round the school-room fire, they began, as all schoolboys do whe

ege; “twelve weeks more, and we are free

east!” exclai

Vivian Grey; “something more stirring for

had been asked fifty times, and then they “supposed they must give it up;” and then Vivian Grey made a proposition which the rest were secretly sighing for, but which they were afraid to make themselves; he proposed that they should act without asking Dallas. “Well, th

so easy to black a face with a burnt cork. Another was for Hamlet, solely because he wanted to act the ghost, which he p

us and varying proposals, “this will never

! oh! how delightfu