XIV--A CHANGE IN THE CREW AND WHAT CAME OF IT XV--A STORM BREWS AND BREAKS XVI--THE STORM RAGES XVII--NEW GROUND XVIII--ENGLEBOURN VILLAGE XIX--A PROMISE OF FAIRER WEATHER XX--THE RECONCILIATION XXI--CAPTAIN HARDY ENTERTAINED BY ST. AMBROSE XXII--DEPARTURES EXPECTED AND UNEXPECTED XXIII--THE ENGLEBOURN CONSTABLE XXIV--THE SCHOOLS XXV--COMMEMORATION XXVI--THE LONG WALK IN CHRISTCHURCH MEADOWS XXVII--LECTURING A LIONESS XXVIII--THE END OF THE FRESHMEN'S YEAR XXIX--THE LONG VACATION LETTER BAG XXX--AMUSEMENTS AT BARTON MANOR XXXI--BEHIND THE SCENES XXXII--A CRISIS XXXIII--BROWN PATRONUS XXXIV--[Greek text] MEHDEN AGAN XXXV--SECOND YEAR XXXVI--THE RIVER SIDE XXXVII--THE NIGHT WATCH XXXVIII--MARY IN MAYFAIR XXXIX--WHAT CAME OF THE NIGHT WATCH XL--HUE AND CRY XLI--THE LIEUTENANT'S SENTIMENTS AND PROBLEMS XLII--THIRD YEAR XLIII--AFTERNOON VISITORS XLIV--THE INTERCEPTED LETTER BAG XLV--MASTER'S TERM XLVI--FROM INDIA TO ENGLE BOURN XLVII--THE WEDDING DAY XLVIII--THE BEGINNING OF THE END XLIX--THE END L--THE POSTSCRIPT TOM BROWN AT OXFORD By Thomas Hughes (1822-96) CHAPTER INTRODUCTORY In the Michaelmas term after leaving school, Tom Brown received a summons from the authorities, and went up to matriculate at St. Ambrose's College, Oxford. He presented himself at the college one afternoon, and was examined by one of the tutors, who carried him, and several other youths in like predicament, up to the Senate House the next morning. Here they went through the usual forms of subscribing to the articles, and otherwise testifying their loyalty to the established order of things, without much thought perhaps, but in very good faith nevertheless. Having completed the ceremony, by paying his fees, our hero hurried back home, without making any stay in Oxford. He had often passed through it, so that the city had not the charm of novelty for him, and he was anxious to get home; where, as he had never spent an autumn away from school till now, for the first time in his life he was having his fill of hunting and shooting.