"Tell the professor that I'm seriously ill." So Tadeo, as this invalid youth was known, entered the church to follow the girl.
Tadeo went to the University every day to ask if the classes would be held and each time seemed to be more and more astonished that they would.

He had a fixed idea of a latent and eternal _holiday_, and expected it to come any day.

So each morning, after vainly proposing that they play truant, he would go away alleging important business, an appointment, or illness, just at the very moment when his companions were going to their classes.

But by some occult, thaumaturgic art Tadeo passed the examinations, was beloved by the professors, and had before him a promising future.
Meanwhile, the groups began to move inside, for the professor of physics and chemistry had put in his appearance.

The students appeared to be cheated in their hopes and went toward the interior of the building with exclamations of discontent.