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Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms-- Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley-- His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.