The Prelude to Adventure

many souls that have been building, these many years, with careful elaboration, walls of defence and protection find themselves suddenly naked and indecent before the world. For tha

freedom that it is so happily remembered; but there are those who adopt Camb

les voices softly dispute the turning of a phrase, eyes mildly salute the careful dishes of a wisely chosen cook, gentle patronage is bestowed upon the wild ruffian of the outer world. Many bells ring, many fires are burning, many lamps are lit, many leaves of many books are turned-busily, busily hands

t its flavour, Homer is hidden by a cloud, the gentle chatter is curtailed and silenced. Amongst the lower order-those wild and turbulent undergraduates-it is the only topic. Carfax is very generally known; he had ridden, he had rowed,

en to any one. Let the High Table dismiss it easily, it is none so simple for those who have not had time to build up those defending walls. For a day or two there is a hush about the place, voices are soft, men talk i