his fellow students—not even those who boarded in the same house with him—suspecting that he had anything particular on hand. He could keep a secret as well as the grave itself; and nobody could pump anything out of him either. That was his nature. Much as he expressed of his mind, it was evident that he had secret recesses in his heart, to which the public had no right to enter, and that he knew well how to keep the key.
As student he was very regular and industrious. With all his literary work, he never absented himself from the class, and never neglected to prepare his lessons. Perhaps it took him not so long as some of his fellow students to prepare them. He had received good education in his youth, and had been always so used to read and think, that he was ready for work. This gave him less labor, so that he could get more time for himself than his less fortunate friends. In his recitations he displayed not such brightness of mind as might be expected of him; but he was always equal to his class, and doing his part readily in the class. Some are inclined to neglect the elementary classes; but he was determined to be consistent in all his duties—and that upon principle. Though proficient in English when he first entered College, he never neglected the English grammar class, because he thought it his duty to go through the College curriculum thoroughly. This was strange when we consider that so many other calls took up his time. There was hardly a meeting of any kind in town that he did not attend, as if he had nothing else to do. He acted as adjudicator at the literary meetings at Bala and the surrounding country; arranged the lectures of those who visited the place, and reported them in the
