The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-22
THE STUDENTS.
By !. +. SMITH.

Walters; remember, you promised to be
there by eight
True" said Herbert, smiling at his
own forgetfulness; "but is it not strange
that YOU should be the first to rcco!lect
it? Mine is avid nature he contln-
ucd; "there is room in it for friendship,
love of nature and still warmer pas
sion. | have been so happy in your
society. have 50 enjoyed the calm beauty
of the evening, that for while | have
forgot even my pretty Alice. Tell me-
sh4ll We proceed to the lodge, or wait
until the service be ended? The boat
man will then come to claim his
boat for the night and set Us over.
Zen ~ YOU list, Herbert, and till
old Charon comes, shall sit upon the
bank and listen TO the fading chant Of
the choir. As It comes signing on the
breeze. VIII YOU not come and take u
seat beside me.
"Wiuingly. replied his companion,
throwing himself on the ground; here
We can watch the procession from the
chapel, and enjoy the beauty of the even
rning. uark 10 the henrdiction.'
A. he spoke, the following chant was
plainly heard above the breeze:
ave vcrun corpus uatum
DE Maria Nirgiur.
We're pasSum, inn~latuIn,
In Crucc pro hOminc.
CujuS lutu> periOratum
linda fiuXlt ct Sangulnc,
t.slO uObiS prlc5u>tatum
MOrtiS in examine
The friends. both students of G0uVllIc
Hall, were seated on the ground opo-
site Kings College; the place where they
were, sitting was, ut that time, half
ovcrgrown with brushwood, and uuron-
nected 10y those light, elegant arches with
which modern taste and convenience
have since adorned the silver Cam.
Nothing could be more dissimllar than
the characters of the two students
Herbert WAS mild, gentle and objection
ute in his dist ,tion, steady in hi friend
ship. possessed with deep sense OF his
religion and an enthusiastic love OF the
arts; he sang with taste, and his chamber
crowded with pictures, busts, casts and
antiquities, rescmblcd the studio oil an
Italian painter more than the cell "t "
Cambridge student.
Mark Wayward on the contrary, was
n being in whom the principles OF good
and evil were blended morethan equally;
his passions were his master, ms reason
too often their slave. When a mere boy
he travelled through Germany, and i'm
bibed much Of the skeptism of their
schools, without the philosophy which
palliatc> or the learning which adorns it..
With all his faults, Mark loved his
companion, whose gentle manners and
and refined taste had won an interest in
/ his heart. There was something graf
. lfyiny to his pride in having SO accom-
yiishrd a friend, and while in his society
he carefully concealed those frailities
and follies from which the pure nature
IF Herbert would have recojlcd. They
both, ut the same time became acquaint-
ed with Alice Walters, the only daughter
Of an impoverished gentleman, whose
fortune mad been lost in the war OF the
rival houses of York and Lancaster.
From the impetuous fiery Mark, the
timid maiden had ut first started WITH
fear She felt confused her checks
burned beneath his gaze, the expression
ofhis dark eye distressed her, bit d'cett
gDou her ,acmoI'M and Herbert in all
appearance, became her favored sutton.
Ii was to the house Of her father, where
they generally passed their evenings,
that they had agreed to proceed, rs soon
81 the ierrvman should arrive. Each
wu. INDUCING in that contemplatlve,
delicious silence which music, family
be,rJ AT the twilight hour, seldom fails
IN produce, when their attention was
attracted hv the sound OF an approaching
step. -, ,.:., !;
COMPANION, we are not the only truants'
ua, il is that gloomy censor and sour
cvnlc. Mowhray. like him not-pr'thee
let him pass on, 49,. .,
But why should you dislike him?
demanded his friend. "H"hat a cauStlc
wit | confess, but hr lasheS wees only
nn, misfortune; motives not impulse
He hath ever been kind to me. lear
that misfortune hath >oured a once warm
heart
"IIanr him. interrupted Mark, i'm
pctuousiv; he hath a dictionary oinN''mS
=, his fingers end. and never uttereth
one that he does not point 1t Ike sheer
He loves more to detcSt vice. III others
,hsn To cultivate virtue in himself, ana
III. TONGUE is So venomous, that 1t he Tut
sneak YOUR name, he taintS It. u none
of him =,
The subject of their conversation, by
I,,s time stood beside them; he was APP
narcntly about thirty years OF age, thin
- attenuation. hut possessed of "a coUn-
trn,ure 80 highly intellectual, 80 eNiul>-
i,iclv chiseled, vet 50 pale and statue
like that it would have seemed unearth-
~ but for the piercing black eye, when
danced with restless motion.
"As usual. he exclaimed, after pause,
Jprino which he surveyed his friends
still Illustrating your boyish lesson, the
fable of antiquity-still playing Damon
and Pythias-stili installing habit for
feeling. How long is this childish dream
to last?'
For life, trust answered Herbert,
taking his companions hand. III
the friendship, which has been the
pleasure of my childhood, the judgment
IF nv manhood. is to tade-if am to
lose, one by one, as you have predicted
those susceptibilities which, in flower,
a tree. q picture, kind glance from
friend, now afford delight, would not
wish to live. Life must be joylcSs when
the heart is withered, or so bound by the
preiudcrs and suspicious of the world
That not one pure feeling can escape,