WHAT THE OLD GRADUATE LEARNED
fit, for instance, to go to Murray Hall and—what's the matter, have I hurt you?"
The undergraduate for some reason was shuddering. "For Heaven's sake," he hissed, "don't mistake me for a Gospel Shark! Oo-ooh!—what would the fellows think!"
"Why, what's the trouble, what have I done? No insult was intended, I assure you, my dear young friend. You must pardon me, I know no better, I'm very green," said the meek old graduate. "But tell me, do not respectable people go there, good fellows even, when religiously inclined?"
"Never went inside the place to see— Booh! What made you think"
"Calm yourself, sir, do not take it so hard. If it is comforting to you to know it, I will tell you, candidly, my boy, that even if I had meant the sanctimonious sort, who dissipate in religion so immoderately that they seem offensive to you, almost as offensive as you seem to them when you abuse conviviality—even if I had meant that earnest sort, you need not worry; nobody
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