He could not inflict upon him a disappointment so severe as his departure from college would be.

He would yet atone for his folly, and fulfil his father's long-cherished hopes, and without consulting him, in a moment of desperation, he sought the resident head of the University, and imparted his wishes.

The preliminaries were quickly settled, and the next letter from Oxford which Mr.Myrvin received, contained the intelligence that his son had reconciled his mind to the change, and become a servitor.
A glow of thanksgiving suffused the old man's heart, but he knew all the inward and outward trials with which his son had to contend.

Had he at the first joined the college in the rank which he now held, he might not have felt the change so keenly; but as it was, the pride and haughtiness which had characterised him before, were now, as we have seen, returned tenfold upon himself.

He clothed himself outwardly in an invulnerable armour of self-control and cold reserve, but inwardly his blood was in one continued fever, until the friendship of Percy and Herbert soothed his troubled feelings.