The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-11
mIsCELLANY.
THE MAGIC MIRROR.

THE MAGIC MIRROR.
~ tell thee
There's not pulse beats in the human frame
That is not governed by the stars above us;
The blood that fills our We ms in all its ebb
And flow, is swayed by them as certainly
AS are the restless tides OF the salt sea
By the resplendent moon.
NEELE.
He went home, expecting, of course, to
receive a message from this person, APP
pointing the time and place at which he
would be required to give him satisfaction;
Tor duelling was then OF daily occurrence
in the university. To his astonishment,
however, instead of challenge, he receiy
ed visit from captain of the city guard,
WIG summoned nlm to repair. under tne
escort of himself and file Of his men, TO
the council-room of the university. Leo
pold Immediately obeyed; and, on his way
10 the council, he learnt from the captain
that he was called upon to answer for hav-
ING beaten one of the collegians. This was
so nnheard-of way of settling such dis
pute among the students, that he was still
more surprised at it.
When ne arrived at the cOuDcil-room he
found the president and fellows Of the col
iege sitting in judgment, and his antagonist
ready to prefer his complaint, which he did
with no small cxaggeration in his own ia
vor.
Leopold was called upon to reply. He
disdained even To aIlude to the misrepre-
sentations which his adversary had resort
ed TO, but at once admitted that feeling
himself wantonly, and without proyocatiun.
insuted by the student, he had chastised
IL. a bo oll .sI fhath s.t
willing to abide she consequences there or
elsewhere.
tVss,' syscaiserated the psytroon who had
been beaten, st is likely indeed, that am
TO meet in open fight man who deals with
the devil, and who, for aught know, may
bring a fiend for his second
This iaunt furnished Leopold at once
with the explanation of the GOODNESS he had
experienced from his friends. He saw, in a
moment, the reason why his company had
been Stunned, and his person became
mark for the
sslow and moving hand Of Scom
To point the finger at
He was so much overcome by anger and
shame, that he could not reply but by a look
Of naughty Indignation.
AFTER whispering for few moments with
the fellows, the president began long la
rangue to Leopold, in which, without noti-
cling the allusion of the other student, he
enlarged upon the necessity of preserv-
ing public peace in place devoted 10
study; and then, reading one of the edicts
of the college, in which the penalty for
striking a blow within the walls was de-
cared to be the expulsion of the offender,
he pronounced that sentence upon Leopold,
and ordered him forthwith TO quit the uni
versity.
Leopold, in short and angry reply, de
clared that he heard the sentence with in.
difference, and that he would not condos
cend to avail himself of the opportunity he
had OF appealing from The partialty and
Injustice with which an Obsolete law was
thus put invidiousy in force; but he DENIED
and threw back the infamous SANDER which
FJbad been uttered against him, and which
be said, had only been used for the purpose
Of sheltering the cowardice of the person
vino had resoried il.
The president replied that this imputa.
ton, heavy and horrible as it was, formed
no part of the grounds upon which the
sentence had been passed; hut, as he said
this, Leopold saw, or thought he saw, that
Tie old man believed the caumny in lis
fullest ex tent
Disguised and enraged, Leopold left the
chamber and retired TO his own, where a
short time sufiiced to complete the prepa
raiions necessary for his departure. The
next morning saw him on his way to
Switzerland, where he resided for time
Here he received the news of his moiher's
death, by which event he became the pos.
SCISSOR of large patrimony. He was
however, not inclined To return 10 Ger
many; but. committing The care OF his es-
tates to the steward, who had managed
them for considerable lumber of years
he resolved 10 travel he cared not whittier
and solely in the hope of distracting hi.
mind from the contemplation oi'thethounht,
which burdened him. In pursuance ofih
resolution he crossed The Alps, and entered
Italy. s 80 a
In the hotel at Milan, where he took W
his abode, he found some Of the officers o
aFrench regiment then quartered in tina
city. The inward oppression which. al
-laost consumed his life had become ,st