Certain medical students of the kind which glory in any kind of row openly congratulated him on his luck in being present on such an occasion.

Men who claimed to be fast, and tried to impress their acquaintances with the belief that they indulged habitually in wild scenes of revelry, courted Hyacinth, and boasted afterwards of their second-hand acquaintance with Miss Goold.

It became the fashion to be seen arm-in-arm with him in the quadrangle, and to inquire from him in public for 'Finola.' This new popularity by no means pleased Hyacinth.

He was not at all proud of his share in the Rotunda meeting, and lived in daily dread of being recognised as the assailant of Mr.Shea.He knew, too, that he was making no way with the better class of students.

The men whose faces he liked were more than ever shy of making his acquaintance.