Produced by Charles Bowen from page scans provided by Google Books Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=zzhMAAAAcAAJ ORVILLE COLLEGE A STORY. BY MRS. HENRY WOOD, AUTHOR OF "EAST LYNNE," "THE CHANNINGS," ETC. _COPYRIGHT EDITION_. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1867. _The Right of Translation is reserved_. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. In the Plantation. II. The New Boy. III. Hard and Obstinate as Nails. IV. Sir Simon Orville's Offered Reward. V. Mother Butter's Lodgings. VI. Mr. Gall abroad. VII. Mr. Lamb improves his Mind in Private. VIII. A Loss. IX. Christmas Day. X. A Man in a Blaze. XI. Only the Heat! XII. In the Shop in Oxford Street. XIII. If the Boys had but seen! XIV. Over the Water. XV. Dick's Bath. XVI. The Duel. XVII. Mr. Leek in Convulsions. XVIII. Told at Last. XIX. A Visitor for Sir Simon. XX. As if Ill Luck followed him. XXI. The Outbreak. XXII. Before the Examiners. XXIII. Falling from a Pinnacle. XXIV. In the Quadrangle. XXV. Very Peacefully. XXVI. The End. ORVILLE COLLEGE. CHAPTER I. In the Plantation. The glowing sunset of a September evening was shining on the fair grounds around Orville College, lighting up the scene of stir and bustle invariably presented on the return of the boys to their studies after the periodical holidays. A large, comfortable-looking, and very irregular building was this college. But a moderate-sized house originally, it had been added to here, and enlarged there, and raised yonder, at different times as necessity required, and with regard to convenience only, not to uniformity of architecture. The whole was of red brick, save the little chapel jutting out at one end; _that_ was of white brick, with black divisional strokes, as if the architect had a mind to make some distinction by way of reverence. The Head Master's house faced the lawn and the wide gravel carriage-drive that encircled it; the school apartments, ending in the chapel, were built on the house's left; the sleeping-rooms and domestic offices were on its right. It was only a private college—in fact, a school—founded many years ago by a Dr. Orville, and called after him; but it gradually became renowned in the world, and was now of the very first order of private colleges.