Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846

THE ARMY.1

MY COLLEGE FRIENDS. NO. IV

THE ROMANTIC DRAMA

THE MINSTREL'S CURSE

THE MINE, THE FOREST, AND THE CORDILLERA.8

"MORIAMUR PRO REGE NOSTRO."

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Conclusion

MESMERIC MOUNTEBANKS

COOKERY AND CIVILISATION.12

THE LATE AND THE PRESENT MINISTRY

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"Have you any idea who that fresh gentleman-commoner is?" said I to Savile, who was sitting next to me at dinner, one day soon after the beginning of term. We had not usually in the college above three or four of that privileged class, so that any addition to their table attracted more attention than the arrival of the vulgar herd of freshmen to fill up the vacancies at our own. Unless one of them had choked himself with his mutton, or taken some equally decided mode of making himself an object of public interest, scarcely any man of "old standing" would have even inquired his name.

"Is he one of our men?" said Savile, as he scrutinized the party in question. "I thought he had been a stranger dining with some of them. Murray, you know the history of every man who comes up, I believe – who is he?"

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"You must mean Lucy Fielding."

"Nonsense, my dear Ma'am – I beg a thousand pardons; but I was introduced to Miss Fielding, and danced with her – she squints."

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