Walled In A Novel Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Wallrd 3tt white burned above Ferris's head as he brushed by; he broke one and put it in his coat; he was full of boyish, joyous impulses, and cared for flowe... more »rs. He was apt to put them in his buttonhole himself. Tessa did not think of it. "I am not afraid to gc anywhere with you, brother," replied Miss Ferris. This answer pleased Myrton Ferris; it indicated, he felt, the attitude becoming to women. Smiling, he started the carriage, carefully respecting the speed limit, as a professor must, but increasing it as he could; he whirred exultantly through the village, face to the hills, hand on throttle, foot on brake, fire in his eye, and youth in his heart. His shoulders showed their fine shape through his rubber touring-coat; he "sat tall," as the students put it. Harry Sheffield (who came from the coast) took bicycle trips with him sometimes, and said, "Ferry sits like a main-mast." We are not recording the biography of a genius, hardly that of a great man (though this may depend upon the definition), but in one respect Myrton Ferris had that happy union of opposite qualities which goes so far to make the extraordinary character—he was an athletic scholar. Already recognized—and he was but forty-three—as standing well to the front of his department, he golfed, he climbed, he fenced, he sailed, he handled a good fresh-water oar, he swam like a fish. When he was a lad (although an honor man) he was on the college team. This circumstance, and the tradi- BalUfc 3n tions adhering to it, gave him popularity among the students. He was the favorite professor. As h rode down the main street of the town he met the president of the college, who signalled a wish to speak with him. Ferris brought the rocking carriage to an artistic stop. " We have changed the hour of the ...« less