Among such cares the week rolled away only too speedily, and brought the
day of the school's arrival upon us. If we have failed, as we have, to
convey a true impression of the serious labour and anxieties which
crowded its hours, we will quote the summary of a writer who described it
at the time, and knew what he was describing: "It was like shaking the
alphabet in a bag, and bringing out the letters into words and sentences;
such was the sense of absolute confusion turned into intelligent shape."
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CHAPTER IV.


_Gesta ducis celebro_, _Rutulis qui primus ab oris_
_Cambriae_, _odoratu profugus_, _Borthonia venit_
_Litora_; _multum ille et sanis vexatus et aegris_,
_Vi Superum_, _quibus haud curae gravis aura mephitis_:
_Multa quoque et loculo passus_, _dum conderet urbem_
_Inferretque deos Cymris_.

AN EPIC FRAGMENT.

[Greek text].

The careful general who has completed his disposition without one
discoverable flaw, who has foreseen all emergencies, and anticipated
every possible combination, may await the action with a certain moral