Previous communications had taken
place between Dr. Portman on Pen's part, and Mr. Buck, Tutor of Boniface,
on whose side Pen was entered; and as soon as Major Pendennis had
arranged his personal appearance, so that it should make a satisfactory
impression upon Pen's tutor, the pair walked down Main Street, and passed
the great gate and belfry-tower of Saint George's College, and so came,
as they were directed, to Saint Boniface: where again Pen's heart began
to beat as they entered at the wicket of the venerable ivy-mantled gate
of the College. It is surmounted with an ancient dome almost covered with
creepers, and adorned with the effigy of the Saint from whom the House
takes its name, and many coats-of-arms of its royal and noble
benefactors.
The porter pointed out a queer old tower at the corner of the quadrangle,
by which Mr. Buck's rooms were approached, and the two gentlemen walked
acrosse the square, the main features of which were at once and for ever
stamped in Pen's mind--the pretty fountain playing in the centre of the
fair grass plats; the tall chapel windows and buttresses rising to the
right; the hall with its tapering lantern and oriel window; the lodge,
from the doors of which the Master issued with rustling silks; the lines
of the surrounding rooms pleasantly broken by carved chimneys, grey
turrets, and quaint gables--all these Mr.
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