Never was anything heard like it.

As for me, as I am now become a reading man, I must go elsewhere." Now, it so chanced that the worthy dean, who albeit a man of most abstemious habits, possessed a nose which, in color and development, was a most unfortunate witness to call to character, and as Mooney heard Webber narrate circumstantially the frightful excesses of the great functionary, I saw that something like conviction was stealing over him.
"You'll, of course, never speak of this except to your most intimate friends," said Webber.
"Of course not," said the doctor, as he shook his hand warmly, and prepared to leave the room.

"O'Malley, I leave you here," said he; "Webber and you can talk over your arrangements." Webber followed the doctor to the door, whispered something in his ear, to which the other replied, "Very well, I will write; but if your father sends the money, I must insist--" The rest was lost in protestations and professions of the most fervent kind, amidst which the door was shut, and Mr.Webber returned to the room.
Short as was the interspace from the door without to the room within, it was still ample enough to effect a very thorough and remarkable change in the whole external appearance of Mr.Frank Webber; for scarcely had the oaken panel shut out the doctor, when he appeared no longer the shy, timid, and silvery-toned gentleman of five minutes before, but dashing boldly forward, he seized a key-bugle that lay hid beneath a sofa-cushion and blew a tremendous blast.
[Illustration: FRANK WEBBER AT HIS STUDIES.] "Come forth, ye demons of the lower world," said he, drawing a cloth from a large table, and discovering the figures of three young men coiled up beneath.

"Come forth, and fear not, most timorous freshmen that ye are," said he, unlocking a pantry, and liberating two others.

"Gentlemen, let me introduce to your acquaintance Mr.O'Malley.