d you, pierce and strike him through and
through. However powerful he seems, at your feet he will bow, he
will fall, he will lie down; at your feet he will bow and fall,
and where he bows, there will he rise up no more. So let all
thine enemies perish, O Lord; but let them that love Thee be as
the sun when he goeth forth in his might.'"

* This quotation is from the sermon preached by Dr. Stanley
before the University, on Act Sunday, 1859 (published by J. H.
Parker, of Oxford). I hope the distinguished professor whose
words they are will pardon the liberty I have taken in quoting
them. No words of my own could have given so vividly what I
wanted to say.

The two friends separated themselves from the crowd in the porch
and walked away, side by side, towards their college.

"Well, that wasn't a bad move of ours. It is worth something to
hear a man preach that sort of doctrine," said Hardy.

"How does he get to know it all?" said Tom, meditatively.

"All what? I don't see your puzzle."

"Why, all sorts of things that are in a fellow's mind--what he
thinks about the first thing in the morning, for instance."

"Pretty much like the rest of us, I take it; by looking at home.
You don't suppose university preachers are unlike you and me."

"Well, I don't know. Now do you think he ever had anything on his
mind that was always coming up and plaguing him, and which he
never told to anybody?"

"Yes, I should think so; most of us must have had."

"Have you?"

"Ay, often and often."

"And you think his remedy the right one?"

"The only one. Make a clean breast of it and the sting is gone.
There's a great deal to be done afterwards, of course; but there
can be no question about step No. 1."

"Did you ever owe a hundred pounds that you couldn't pay?" said
Tom, with a sudden effort; and his secret had hardly passed his
lips before he felt a relief which surprised himself.

"My dear fellow," said Hardy, stopping in the street "you don't
mean to say you are speaking of yourself?"

"I do, though," said Tom, "and it has been on my mind ever since
Easter term, and has spoilt my temper and everything--that and
something else that you know of. You must have seen me getting
more and more ill-tempered, I'm sure; and I have thought of it
the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night; and
tried to drive the thought away just as he said one did in his
sermon. By Jove, I thought he knew all about it, for he lo