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The narrative traces the intimate friendship between two college companions as loyalty is strained when one quietly falls in love and withholds his confidence. Their bond is observed by a thoughtful professor whose cherished photograph and lectures provide a reflective frame. The story moves through notebooks, correspondence, and a lyrical interlude that evokes departure and battle, following the friends across a year of change, a tense midnight episode, and a sequence of letters that culminate in loss and a quiet aftermath. Themes of devotion, secrecy, and the costs of duty are explored in a compact, episodic structure.

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Title: Two College Friends

Author: Frederic W. Loring

Release date: August 24, 2018 [eBook #57757]

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWO COLLEGE FRIENDS ***

Two College Friends.

BY

FRED. W. LORING.

AUTHOR OF THE “BOSTON DIP AND OTHER VERSES.”

LORING, Publisher,

Cor. Bromfield and Washington Sts.,

BOSTON.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,

By A. K. LORING,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Stereotyped and Printed by Rockwell & Churchill, Boston.


LIST OF CHAPTERS

  PREFACE AND DEDICATION
I THE LECTURE ON DOMESTIC ARTS
II THE PICTURE OVER THE FIREPLACE
III HE MOVED WITH A VAST CROWD
IV NED’S NOTE-BOOK
V CORRESPONDENCE
VI ONE YEAR AFTER
VII NED’S NOTE-BOOK
VIII MIDNIGHT
IX THE BEGINNING OF THE END
X THE LAST LETTER HOME
XI AFTERWARDS