Waldron, the
lecturer, threaded their way to the front, and the proceedings began.
I heard of one case where, day after day, the
lecturer's audience consisted of three students--and always the same three.
The
lecturer, who has lived most of his life in India, gave some marvelous exhibitions of his power, hypnotizing anyone who chose to submit himself to the experiment, by merely looking at him.
The chapel was already filled with an earnest congregation, and out of them rose the voice of a
lecturer, directing them how to worship Giotto, not by tactful valuations, but by the standards of the spirit.
In one place one hears of a student's robbing the mail on the high road; in another place people of good social position forge false banknotes; in Moscow of late a whole gang has been captured who used to forge lottery tickets, and one of the ringleaders was a
lecturer in universal history; then our secretary abroad was murdered from some obscure motive of gain.
It was about a humorous
lecturer who flooded an ignorant audience with the killingest jokes for an hour and never got a laugh; and then when he was leaving, some gray simpletons wrung him gratefully by the hand and said it had been the funniest thing they had ever heard, and "it was all they could do to keep from laughin' right out in meetin'." That anecdote never saw the day that it was worth the telling; and yet I had sat under the telling of it hundreds and thousands and millions and billions of times, and cried and cursed all the way through.
Pocket was out lecturing; for, he was a most delightful
lecturer on domestic economy, and his treatises on the management of children and servants were considered the very best text-books on those themes.
A temperance
lecturer saw him, and wrought poor David into the texture of his evening's discourse, as an awful instance of dead drunkenness by the roadside.
Here a red-nosed publican shouting the praises of his vats and there a temperance
lecturer at 50 pounds a night; here a judge and there a swindler; here a priest and there a gambler.
Hilton Soames, tutor and
lecturer at the College of St.
Miss Oranthy Bluggage, the accomplished strong-minded
lecturer, will deliver her famous lecture on "WOMAN AND HER POSITION" at Pickwick Hall, next Saturday Evening, after the usual performances.
"I shall ask our Physiological
Lecturer why he never gave us that exquisite Theory!"