[Charles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Lever]@TWC D-Link bookCharles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon Volume 2 (of 2) CHAPTER XXXVIII 10/11
It ran thus:-- LATE OUTRAGE IN TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. We have great pleasure in stating that the serious disturbance which took place within the walls of our University a few evenings since, was in no wise attributable to the conduct of the students.
A party of ill-disposed townspeople were, it would appear, the instigators and perpetrators of the outrage.
That their object was the total destruction of our venerated University there can be but little doubt.
Fortunately, however, they did not calculate upon the _esprit de corps_ of the students, a body of whom, under the direction of Mr. Webber, successfully opposed the assailants, and finally drove them from the walls. It is, we understand, the intention of the board to confer some mark of approbation upon Mr.Webber, who, independently of this, has strong claims upon their notice, his collegiate success pointing him out as the most extraordinary man of his day. This, my dear Charley, will give you some faint conception of one of the most brilliant exploits of modern days.
The bulletin, believe me, is not Napoleonized into any bombastic extravagance of success. The tiling was splendid; from the brilliant firework of the old pump itself, to the figure of Perpendicular dripping with duckweed, like an insane river-god, it was unequalled.
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