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of our class, ancl thonght if the country at large only knew what a fine President he had made us-but my dream suddenlycltanged- 7. I was dreaming of foreign lands. I was wandering through Egypt, Asia ancl many other strange places. My dream was very vivid anci everything seemed so real. 1 at last reached Paris, where, on a shopping expedition, a delight only indulged in with the keenest pleasure in this metropolis of fashion, T one day met Mary Gorsuch bound on the same errand. It was, 1 thought, a pleasure mutually shared to sec each other again. We finished our shopping together, chatting merrily all the while 01"college clays, our learned professors, ancl what-not; especially did we talk of our Professors of Language, Dr. and Madame Bonnotte-what fun we had had in class at the latter's expense! Those were indeed happy times. Mnry saiel she had been traveling for live years, and had become such a thorough foreigner that she would feel strange on American soil. Of course, her personality allowed her entrance into the best circles in London; she had been presented at court, and said she liked the English nobility very much. It seemed to be years after-ward that I heard she had made England her permanent residence, where, with Sir -, her husband, she was living royally. 8. College days! 1was just stepping from the tr-ain at Westminster, but my! how changed the place was! Where was the old station? "Pulled down," was the answer, and a large handsome one equal to almost any stood in its place. I refused a cab and started, as was my old habit, to walk to college. The town was so changed. "Town," did I say? "City" was the only name that could truthfully be applied to it 110W. The first one to welcome me back to the place of my former joys and sorrows was 111)' classmate, Eva Pauline Hen', who, in her stylish little run-about, was taking a morning constitutional. She had changed but slightly, and was the same fun-loving woman as she had been a girl. She told me what she had been doing with herself since graduation. Her life had not been an eventful one, though pleasant. She did not teach, but, like the majority of Westminster girls, lived an idle, gay Ide, was one of the leaders of society, and spent her time in a continuous round of pleasure=card parties, dances, golf and what-not. - - 83 - -