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Aetat. 19.] after I came to college I waited upon him, and then staid away four. On the sixth, Mr. Jorden asked me why I had not attended. I answered I had been sliding in ChristChurch meadow. And this I said with as much nonchalance as I am now talking to you. I had no notion that I was wrong or irreverent to my tutor. : 'That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind.' : 'No, Sir; stark insensibility .' The fifth of November was at that time kept with great solemnity