The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-21

st this 10 % sopbism invented centuries age
excuse ignorance and idienese Tho pro
esion of medicine 10 n mission OF humanity
| and of charity and IL God will give me the
required strength, will fulfil it with the con
viotion and faith of q priest"
| The young lawyer placed himself between
the two put a band over the moath of each
| and said, imperiously
! "Enoughi not q word of business, Of studies
| of books, of examinations. The first who com
menoes the wearisone subject shall forfeit a
| pot of beer. Attend to this vigorously it s a
law. Wait, Adolphus +; here is q
fine cigar that I kept for You it is o real
panotella from Professor Hubert's box. Light
it from mine. Walk on march, To the Elms!
As soon as Adolphns had lighted his cigsr,
the young lawyer extended his arm, and push
ed his companions with such violence out or
the apartment, that they nearly fell one over
the other down the staircase As they passed
through the shop, the master carpenter stop-
ped his plane and smiled brightly at seeing
that they had induced his lodger to join them
in their walk. On the way the students tried
to amuse their friend by their pieasantries.
The lawyer jealously watched that no 40
rious word should enter into the conversation.
After having passed Namur gate, they in q
few moments came to the famous inn called
the Elm, and went Immediately to the garden,
where they with difficulty procured o table
and chairs. There were so many persons
present, that the hostess, with the assistance
of her two daughters and two boys, could
not attend to the wants OF the customers.
They called, knocked, and cried out to the
walters from all sides and above all this
noise was heard proceeding from the house
violin, clarinet, and tam bour, playing spri-
ted polka. So that, thanks to the buoyant
spirits of so many bands of students, this
place resembled, in no small degree o gather.
ing of peasants after the eXhilerating effects
of beer have opened every heart and loosen cd
every tongue. When at last the hostess had
time to attend to the call of the young lawyer,
his friend, the son Of the banker, ordered two
bottles of wine, some lemons and sugar, with
which he proposed to make o refreshing lemo-
phus, protested against this supeIfluous ex-
pepse but the other replied, that they had
nothing to do with that that he desired to
offer them something rare and excellent, and
that wine was the best means to invigorate
friend who had only one hour and half to
give to necessary recreation. Some time psss.
ed before the landlady brought the articles
called for, aud a still longer time before the
bankers son had prepared the lemonade. The
interval was spent in conversation, inter
spersed with amusing anecdotes and sailies of
w.t. which did not diminish either the noise
or the gayety; then the glasses were filled to
the brim with the red beverage drawn from
the sparkling bowl Adelphus willingly lent
himsef to the frank gayety of his friends he
laughed with them, and occasionally uttered a
pleasantry but often the laugh faded from
his lips and his eyes looked abstractedly in
space, under the Influence of absorbing
thought. In spite of his efforts to appear
Joyous his mind was on his Misunderstanding,
thinking and preparing for victory, under the
formidable trial of the examination awaiting
him. His friend, the lawyer, OWNED the
cause of his preoccupatiun, and began speak
log to him about the examination, and forced
him to acknowledge that his fears wers
vain, that no other student had many
chances of SO brilliantly attaining his last de.
gree. While Adolphns aud his friend
engaged in this serious conversation, the
others continued TO laugh aud jest with each
other.
entrance of the garden He evidently
stranger, because his garments were gray with
dust, and the hinge cane with which he sup
ported himself indicated that he had Just
arrived from long journey. He wore an old
fashioned hat, a dark-brown coat which
reached to his feet. aud heavy shoes, the soles
of which were filled with nails. Notwith-
standing his strange clothing, the old mans
appearance inspired respect. His white locks
fell in sIlvery waves over his shoulders and
he was probably seventy years old,
he walked as nprightly as a young man, and
with the strength and vigor of twenty years.
He stopped aw lille at the entrance of the gar
den, looking around if seeking some one in
the crowd, and his face expressed deep solicit
tude.
Among this assemblsge of citizens aud stu-
dents, there were many who remarked his ap-
peaTance aud gs8sd at him with curiosity
Some udents even laughed aloud, and enjoyed
in anticipation the confusion which the sou of
the patriarch would experience when he recog-
nized him for they presumed the stranger to
be simply q countryman, who had emptied his
money! box to send his son to the University.
man who plays the gentleman at Louvain, or
passes himself off as the son of baron, to re-
oeive, in presence of SO many, the visit of his
father, whose appearance alone sun GENTLY
betrays his genealogy. The old man was
seemingly unconscious that he an object
of indiscreet curiosity to some and of the dis
rarlery of Others. He walked
through the garden, aud continued his search
with freedom and self possession that aston
isbed all present.
Suddenly a violent agitation stopped his
progress. His eye WAS steadily fixed on q table
on which DO vi of red wine stood, and above
which the smoke of cigars arose in fanciful
clouds. He seemed to observe particularly a
yonpg man who had his back to him and was
talking; at the sight of him expression of
aston shment, sadness and regret mingled on
the old mans face.
"LoOk y said the bankers son to his friend,
with an embarrassed air; look at this good
old man " no is coming towards us. Can it be
Your father That would be comiCalp
My fathern replied the ether, laughing;
my father is colonel of lancers. One might
suppose you did not know it"
" He is, perhaps, Adolphus' father"
His mother is a widow"
" He may be- the lawyers father"
As the old man advanced nearer, the son of