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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: defiance; and there is not a brother in the college to which I belong who will not maintain my quarrel. A loud laugh of derision followed this sally; and, ashamed of having justly exposed himself to ridicule by his idle and unworthy display of passion, the Scotsman held his peace and endeavoured to turn a deaf ear to their taunts. The Geloso. Ha/m. Will you play upon this pipe ? Ouil. My lord, I cannot. Ham. I pray you.?Shakespeare. While his eye glanced fiercely round upon his tormentors, Ogilvy suddenly encountered the dark and earnest orbs of a youth, standing at a little distance from him, but fully within hearing of their contention, who appeared to take a lively interest in the cause of the quarrel, though his sympathy was evidently strongly enlisted in behalf of the Scotsman. There was something in the appearance of this youth that, despite the excitement of his feelings, at once arrested the attention of Ogilvy. In age the youth could not be more than eighteen, perhaps not so much, as his slight, though exquisitely symmetrical figure, fragile even to effeminacy, denoted immaturity. But the fire and intelligence of his glances showed that his spirit and resolution were far in advance of his years. Tresses of jetty hair overshadowed his flushed cheek?the olive tint of which, together with his intensely black eyes, proclaimed him a native of some more southern clime?while his attire, though not otherwise singular, was neither that of a member of the university nor accordant with any ofthe received usages then adopted by the good citizens of Paris. A cap of green Genoa velvet fell on one side of his head; a mantle of the same material, and of ampler fold than was the mode, was clasped with a chain of gold, and disposed so as best to hide his slender shape...

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