"Why should
I deny it to you, sir, who have been good enough to sympathise with us?
We are mortified, sadly mortified, at dear Edward's disgrace; and it has
cost us a struggle not to disobey you, and _poison his triumphal cup_
within sad looks. And mamma had to write to him, and console him against
to-morrow: but I hope he will not feel it so severely as she does: and I
have just posted it myself, and, when I thought of our dear mamma being
driven to such expedients, I--Oh!" And the pure young heart, having
opened itself by words, must flow a little more.
"Oh, pray don't cry," said young Hardie tenderly; "don't take such a
trifle to heart so. You crying makes me feel guilty for letting it
happen. It shall never occur again. If I had only known, it should never
have happened at all."
"Once is enough," sighed Julia.
"Indeed, you take it too much to heart. It is only out of Oxford a plough
is thought much of; especially a single one; that is so very common. You
see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items:
neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because
brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the
most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls.
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