Hector gave three loud cracks with his whip, whistled his dogs, and with a Stentor voice called after one of his servants--'Why holloa! You blind blood of a w----! Why Sam! G---- shiver your soul, what are you about? Uncouple Jerry Sneak and Jowler, and give limping Jenny's ear a 'nointing--D---- my body, Trevor, I'm glad to see you! When did you arrive? How did you come? In stile; a chaise and four; smoking the road; raising a mist?'--I was ashamed of my stage-coach vehicle and was silent.--'What, my buck, are you to be one of us?'--'I am'--'D---- my b---- that's right--Jack Singleton! Jack! G---- blunder your body! Why don't you answer, you shamble shanked beggar's baby? Go to the Bursar, and tell him to send supper for six and claret for sixteen; served up to a minute. Do you hear?--D---- my body, I'm glad to see you! We'll make a night ont! What, are you come to enter at our college?'--'Yes'--'D---- my soul, I'm glad ont! D----n me, our college will be the go! D----n me, we are a rare string already! D----n me, we shall beat them all hollow, D----n me, now you're come, d----n me: we shall, d----n me!--Holloa! Sam! Run, you blood of a w----! yonder's Lord Sad-dog turning the corner in his phaeton, four in hand: scamper away and tell him, d----n me, he must sup with me to night. Tell him by G---- he must; he and the jolly dog his tutor. Tell him we have a new comer, a friend, a freshman, piping hot, d----n me, from our village; and that we must make him free of Oxford to night, d----n me. Do you hear?' Astound, breathless, thunder-struck, at this intolerable profaneness, I stood like an idiot, unable to speak or think. Hector took hold of my arm and dragged me along. I obeyed, for I was insensible, soul-less; and even when the return of thought came, it was all confusion. Was this Oxford? Were these its manners? Were such its inhabitants? Oaths twenty in a breath, unmeaning vulgar oaths; ribaldry, such as till that hour I had never heard! What could I do? I was a stranger. Were they all equally depraved, and equally contemptible?--That, said I to myself, is what I wish to know, and I suffered him to lead me wherever he pleased.