It was a week before "class day,"—that eventful day which was virtually to close the college career of Morton and his contemporaries. The little janitor5, commonly called Paddy O'Flinn, was ringing the evening prayer bell from the cupola of Harvard Hall,—its tone was dull and muffled6, some graceless sophomore7 having lately painted it white, inside and out,—and the students were mustering8 at the summons. The sedate9 and the gay, the tender freshman10 and the venerable senior, the prosperous city beau and the awkward country bumpkin, one and all were filing from their respective quarters towards the chapel12 in University Hall. The bell ceased; the loiterers quickened their steps; the last belated freshman, with the dread13 of the proctor before his eyes, bounded frantically14 up the steps; and for a brief space all was silence and solitude15. Then there was a murmuring, rushing sound, as of a coming tempest, and University Hall disgorged its contents, casting forth16 the freshmen17 and juniors at one door, and the sophomores18 and seniors at the other.
Of these last was Morton, who, with three or four of his class, walked across the college yard, towards the great gateway19. By his side was a young man named Rosny, carelessly dressed, but with a lively, dare-devil face, and the look of a good-natured game cock.
"I shall be sorry to leave this place," said Morton; "I like it. I like the elms, and the gravel20 walks, and the scurvy21 old brick and mortar22 buildings."
"Then I am not of your mind," said Rosny; "gravel or mud, brickbats or paving stones, they are the same to me, the world over. Halloo, Wren23," to a mustachioed youth who just then joined them; "we are bound to your room."
"That's as it should be. But where are the rest?"
"Coming—all in good time; here's one of them."
A dapper little person approached, with a shining beaver24, yellow kid gloves, a switch cane25, and a very stiff but somewhat dashing cravat26, surmounted27 by a round and rubicund28 face.
"Ah, Chester!" exclaimed Wren; "the very man we were looking for. Come and take a glass of punch at my room."
"Punch, indeed!" replied Chester, whose face had changed from a prim29 expression to one of great hilarity30 the moment he saw his friends—"no, no, gentlemen, I renounce31 punch and all its works. The pure unmixed, the pure juice of the grape for me."
"But, Chester," urged Wren, "won't the pure mountain dew be a sufficient inducement?"
"The good company will be a sufficient inducement," said Chester, waving his hand,—"the good company, gentlemen,—and the good liquor. But what have we here? Meredith and Vinal walking side by side. Good Heavens, what a conjunction!"
The objects of Chester's astonishment32, on a flattering invitation from Wren, joined the party, which, however, was weakened by the temporary secession of Rosny, who, pleading an errand in the village, left them with a promise to rejoin them soon. His place was in a few moments more than supplied by a new party of recruits, among whom was Stubb. Arrived at Wren's room, the desk and other appliances of study were banished33 from the table; bottles and glasses usurped34 their place, and the company composed themselves for conversation, most of them permitting their chairs to stand quietly on all fours, though one or two, like heathen Yankees from the backwoods, forced them to rear rampant35 on the hind36 legs, the occupant's feet resting on the ledge37 over the fireplace.
A few minutes passed, when a quick, firm step came up the stairs, and Rosny entered.
"How are you again, Dick?" said Meredith.
"Good evening, Mr. Rosny," echoed Stubb, who sat alone on the window seat.
"Eh? what's that?" demanded Rosny, turning sharp round upon the last speaker, with a face divided between indignation and laughter.
"I said, 'Good evening,'" replied Stubb, much disconcerted.
"And why didn't you say, 'Good morning,' yesterday, eh?—when I met you in Boston, eh? He gave me the cut direct," turning to the company. "Mr. Benjamin Stubb, here, gave me the cut direct! It was the pepper-and-salt coat and the thunder-and-lightning breeches that Stubb couldn't think of bowing to when he was walking in —— Street, with a lady. Look here, Stubb,"—again facing the victim,—"what do you take me for? and what the devil do you take yourself for? I know your dirty family history. Your grandfather was a bricklayer, and the Lord knows who your great grandfather was. The best Huguenot blood of France runs in my veins38! My ancestors were fighting at Ivry and Jarnac, while yours were peddling39 coal and potatoes about London streets, or digging mud in a ditch, for any thing you or I know to the contrary." Stubb gasped40. "Your father has a crest41 painted on his carriage; but where did he get it? Why, Cribb, the engraver42, stole it for him out of the British peerage."
Stubb, who was weak and timorous43, here rose in great confusion, muttered something about conduct unbecoming to a gentleman, and meaning to require an explanation, and abruptly44 left the room.
"That job is finished," said Rosny, composedly seating himself. "His bill is settled for him."
"But, Dick," said Morton, who had been laughing in his sleeve during the scene, "do you want to be considered as a Frenchman or an American?"
Rosny had adopted democratic principles and habits partly out of spite against the class to which Stubb belonged, and which he was pleased to designate as the "codfish aristocracy," and partly because he thought that he could thus most effectually gain the ends of his impatient, hankering ambition. His ancestor, the head of an eminent46 Huguenot race, had been driven to America by the persecutions which followed the revocation47 of the edict of Nantes. The family had lived ever since in poverty and obscurity; yet this fiery49 young democrat nourished an inordinate50 pride of birth, and never forgot that he was descended51 from a line of warlike nobles.
"No, no," said Rosny, as Morton pushed a glass towards him, "drinking is against my rule— Well, as it's about the last time,"—filling the glass,—"here's to you all."
"The last time!" said Morton; "that's a dismal52 word. If my next four years are as pleasant as these last have been, I will never complain of them."
"I tell you, boys," said Meredith, who was tranquilly53 puffing55 at his cigar, "the cream of our lives is skimmed already. Rough and tumble, hurry and worry—that will be the story with most of us, more or less, to the end of our days."
"Rough and tumble!" exclaimed Rosny; "so much the better. 'Scots play best at the roughest game'—that's just my case. Who wants to be always paddling about on smooth water? Close reefed topsails, a gale56 astern, and breakers all round—that's the game."
"Every one to his taste," said Chester, shrugging his shoulders. "I suppose a salamander loves the fire, but I don't. 'The race of ambition'—'the unconquerable will'—pshaw! Cui bono? One chases after his object, and when he has got it, he turns from it, and chases another. I profess57 the philosophy of Horace—enjoy the hour as it flies. Ah! he was a model man, a man after my own heart, a gentleman and a man of the world. He could drink his Falernian, and thank the gods for their gifts."
Rosny whispered in Morton's ear, "Chester ought to have been born a century ago, among the John Bulls, up in the cockloft of Brazen58 Nose College, or some such antediluvian59 hole."
In spite of these derogatory remarks, Chester, besides being one of the best scholars in the class, was noted60 for a social, jovial61 disposition62, which, though, like Fluellen's valor63, a little out of fashion, made him a general favorite.
"Speaking of the next four years," said Wren, "I wonder what plans each of us has made for that time. For my part, I have no plan at all, and should be glad to profit by the suggestions of the rest. Come, Chester, what do you mean to do?"
"Expatiate," said Chester, expanding his hands, and thereby64 revealing an odd little antique ring which he wore; "take mine ease, roaming, like the bee, from blossom to blossom. I will leave the earnest men—bah!—the men with a mission—to grub on in their vocation48. I will renounce this land of cotton mills and universal suffrage65. First for Paris, to walk the Boulevards, and go to the masked balls and the opera;—vive la bagatelle66!—then for Rome, to saunter through the Vatican and the picture galleries,—but not to moralize with a long face over fallen grandeur67, and the mutability of human affairs. No, no, gentlemen, I belong to another school of philosophy. I will sit among the ruins of the Forum68, and laugh, like Democritus, at the image of Death. Then I will recreate myself at Capri, like the C?sars before me; then enjoy the dolce far niente at Florence, and read the Tuscan poets in the shades of Vallombrosa."
"But, Chester," interposed Wren, "don't you ever mean to marry and settle down?"
"I object to that phrase, 'settle down.' It calls up disagreeable images. It reminds one of the backwoods, log cabins, men in shirt sleeves, and piles of pine boards and lumber69. Yes, certainly, I mean to marry. What man of taste would leave matrimony out of his scheme of life? One likes to gather his treasures round him, his pictures, his vases, and statues; and how can he adorn70 his rooms with an ornament71 more exquisite—where can he find a piece of furniture more charmingly moulded—than a beautiful woman?"
"If, when you have married your beautiful woman," said Morton, "you find you have caught a Tartar, it will serve you right."
"Hear him," said Chester; "hear the barbarian73. He will always be conjuring74 up some image of disquiet75. 'Rest, rest, perturbed76 spirit.'"
"He could not rest, if he tried," said Horace Vinal.
"No, he is one of those unfortunates who lie under a sentence of endless activity. It is a disease, with which men are afflicted77 for the sins of their ancestors; and for the sins of mine I was born among a whole nation of such. Perpetual motion, bustle78 and whirl,—I grow dizzy to think of it. They cannot rest themselves, and will not let any one else rest. Always pursuing, always doing, never enjoying. A true American cannot enjoy. He would build a steam saw mill in Arcadia, and dam up the four rivers of Paradise for cotton factories."
"But, Chester," said Wren, "that is not at all like Morton; you know he hates utilitarianism."
"Yes, but still he cannot rest. He would not build saw mills and dams; but he would be sure to fire his rifle at some of Adam's live stock, and set all Eden by the ears. Come, Morton, I have told the company my plans. Let us hear what yours are."
"You are twenty-one now," said Vinal, "and can do as you please."
Vinal was a very tall and slender young man, with a strongly marked face, though thin and pale; a grave, thoughtful eye, and compressed lips, expressing a kind of nervous self-control. His dress was very elaborate and scrupulous80, though without the smallest trace of foppery. He was less popular in the class than Morton, but had the reputation of greater talents. This he owed, perhaps, to his habitual81 reserve; for every one thought that he understood Morton thoroughly82, while few pretended to fathom83 the silent and self-contained Vinal.
"I should like well enough to study law," was Morton's non-committal answer.
"I thought, Morton, that you were more of a philosopher. Here you are, a young fellow, full of blood, and worth half a million, and yet you speak of buckling84 down to the law. That is all well enough for poor dogs like me, who go into the mill from necessity. We drudge85 on for twenty years or more, till we have scraped together a competency, or something better, perhaps, and then we find that we have forgotten how to enjoy it. We have grown so used to harness that we are good for nothing out of it, and sacrifice body and soul to our profession. You have reached already the point that we are straining for. The world is all before you, man; launch out and enjoy yourself."
"Didn't you just say," asked Rosny, "that Morton couldn't rest, if he tried?"
"I said he could not rest, but I did not say he could not enjoy himself. Look at him: his cheek is ruddier and browner than any of us. Nobody would believe that a fellow like that was not made to enjoy life. I know Morton. He could roam from blossom to blossom, as Chester says, with as good a will as any body. He has an eye for the fair sex, correct as he is at present. He knows a pretty face from a plain one. The devil will catch him yet with a black eye and a rosy86 cheek."
"Then," said Morton, "he will show his good opinion of my taste."
Rosny, who had his own reasons for disliking Vinal, here broke in without ceremony,—
"How will that be, Dick?" said Meredith.
"With a five dollar bank note, and a lying puff54 in a newspaper; and Vinal will jump at it like a mackerel at a red rag."
Vinal laughed, but with a bad grace.
"Riches and fame!" said Chester, anxious to smooth away all traces of irritation—"riches and fame! I call those legitimate88 objects of pursuit; and the black eye is positively89 praiseworthy. Come, Morton, let us hear your plan. You have not told it yet."
"I defer90 to Rosny—he is my senior. Dick, some ten or twelve years from this, I suppose I shall vote against you for the presidency91."
"Thank you. By that time you will have no whig party left to vote with. The democrats92 will have it all their own way."
"I have often wondered what could have induced a driving man of the world like you to come to college at all. You have been here more than a year; and in the same time, with your previous knowledge, you might have learned as much any where else at half the cost. You are not the fellow to regard a degree of A. M. with superstitious93 veneration94."
"You are right there, colonel. I am of no kith nor kin11 to some of your New England old fogies, who would give their souls for a D. D. or an LL. D.—and get it, too, though they know no more Greek or Hebrew than I know of Choctaw, and can barely manage to stumble along through the Latin Testament95. What's a piece of sheep's skin to me? Humbug96 is the current coin all the world over, and just as much in this free and enlightened country as any where else. I have schemes on foot,—not political,—no matter what they are,—out in the western country; and I happen to know that a degree from Harvard University is the medicine that suits my case; with that for my credentials97, I shall carry it over all competitors. Yes, boys, gammon is the word; and the man who would rise in the world must use the stepping stones."
"You're a victim of the national disease, Rosny," said Chester. "Rising in the world!—that's the idea that ruins us. It's that that makes us lean, starveling, nervous, restless, dyspeptic, hypochondriac,—the most prosperous and most uncomfortable people on earth. Sit down, man, and take your ease. What garden will thrive if every plant in it must be dug up every day, and set out in a better place?"
"Ah, that's good doctrine98 for you. You have got nothing to gain, and a good deal to lose. Stand up for the status quo, old boy; I would, in your place. Look at me, though. I was cut adrift at fourteen,—parents dead,—not a cent in my pocket,—and since then I have tumbled along through the world as I could. You can't kill me. I have more lives than a cat. I have been thrown on my back a dozen times; but the harder I was flung down, the higher I bounced up again. Why, I have known the time when I was glad to earn a shilling by shovelling99 snow off a sidewalk. I have tried my hand at every thing,—printer's work, lecturing, politics, editing, keeping school,—and do you suppose I shall be content to rest in the mud all my days? Not a bit of it. I know my cue better. The time will come when you'll see me shooting up like a rocket."
Here a broad glare against the window interrupted him, and, looking out, his auditors100 saw a bonfire blazing with peculiar101 splendor102 under the windows of the chamber103 where the Faculty104 were at that moment in solemn session. Three proctors and a tutor were hastening towards the scene of outrage105, when a stentorian106 voice from the adjacent darkness roared forth a warning that there was a canister of gunpowder107 in the fire expected every moment to explode. The prudent108 officers therefore kept their distance, busying themselves with noting down the names of several innocent spectators, while the bonfire subsided109 to a natural death, the gunpowder hoax110 having perfectly111 succeeded.
Mr. Wren's guests resumed their seats, mingling112 with graver matters the usual badinage113 of a college gathering114; and when at length they separated, only a lonely light or two glimmered115 from among the many windows of the academic barracks which overlook the college green.
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