ng him with
uplifted hand, stands a majestic angel, on whose flowing robes of white
gleams a celestial radiance from the vista, alight with heavenly faces,
that opens over his head. A happy and holy slumber seems to breathe
from the lad's countenance, and yet you can tell that the light of
dreams has dawned under his "closed eyelids," and that the inward eye
has caught full sight of that Beatific Epiphany.

"We must hang this in your bedroom, Julian," said Mrs Home. "I shall
love to think of you lying under the outstretched hand of this heavenly
watcher."

So they hung it there, and the task was over, and they spent a happy
happy evening together. Next morning Julian accompanied them to the
train, and walked back to the matriculation examination.

CHAPTER SIX.

RENCONTRES.

"A boy--no better--with his rosy cheeks
Angelical, keen eye, courageous look,
And conscious step of purity and pride."
Wordsworth's _Prelude_.

A public school man is by no means lonely when he first enters the
university. He finds many of his old school-fellows accompanying him,
and many who have gone up before him, and he feels united to them all by
a bond of fellowship, which at once creates for him a circle of friends.
Had Julian merely kept up his Harton acquaintances, he would have known
as many Camford men as were at all necessary for the purposes of
society.

But although with most or all of the Hartonians Julian remained on
pleasant and friendly terms, there were others whom he saw quite as
much, and whose society he enjoyed all the more thoroughly because their
previous associations and experiences were different from his own. And
on looking back in aftertimes, what a delight it was to remember the
noble hearts which, during those years of college life, had always
beaten in unison with his own. Few enjoyments were more keen than that
social equality and unconventional intercourse common among all
undergraduates, which might at any time ripen into an earnest and
invaluable friendship, or merely stop at the stage of an agreeable
acquaintanceship. A great, and not the least useful portion of
University education consisted in the intimate knowledge of character
and the many-sided sympathies which were thus insensibly acquired.

During the first few weeks of college life, of course, a good deal of
time was spent in receiving and returning the visits of acquaintances,
old and new. Of the latter, there was one with