Identifier: recordsreminisce01burn (find matches)
Title: Records and reminiscences, personal and general
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir, 1836-1917
Subjects: Journalism
Publisher: London : Methuen & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ail pocket of my under-coat, where it wouldbe completely out of sight of the public gaze, Istepped out, agreeing with him as to his opinionon the weather, and bidding him as genially as Ipossibly could, Good-bye. Eh ? he said, with his hand to his ear, thensuddenly catching, as it were, the echo of my fare-well, he smilingly repeated, Oh—yes—good-bye—good-bye, and therewith the door was closed, andI found myself in Suffolk Street, depressed, dis-illusioned, and with a kind of feeling of being alonein the world. At that moment from out of the United Uni-versity Club at the corner came a college friend,my senior by one year, who was also in town onan absit. Hallo! he cried, when did you come up ? Yesterday. And you ? This morning. Lunched here. Where haveyou been ? Oh! I replied negligently, only just callingon old Bucky. Id heard Paddy Green speak ofhim as Bucky. Old who ? repeated my friend, puzzled. Bucky. Buckstone, I explained. Do you know him .■* asked my friend in evident
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LORD RICHARD GROSVENOR, XOW LORD STALRRIDGK,WHEN IP AT TRIXnv, CAMI5RIDGK NO RESULTS 295 admiration, for I was a mere freshman, and in mysecond term. My dear chap, I answered, plucking up, Ishouldnt call on him if I didnt know him. ButIm off to get my things at Evanss and back againto Cambridge by last train. So we parted. He was so much impressed thatthe next term he requested me to propose him for theA.D.C. I believe that afterwards he spoke of meto his friends as being on the best of terms withall the leading London actors. The three years passed at the university, whetherOxford or Cambridge, will, I should say, be alwaysreckoned as among the happiest, if not quite thehappiest, in any mans life. There is just so muchconstraint as gives to the youthful undergraduatean increased zest for the sweets of liberty. Thenthe reading parties during the long ! My recol-lection of these seasons of study and recreation is ofthe very pleasantest. During two longs, what a merry and studiousparty

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