← In the summer term of '93 a bolt from the blue flashed down on Oxford. 🔊
← When I returned to Oxford for the Christmas term I had duly secured "Negations." 🔊
← The little book, bought by me in Oxford, lies before me as I write. 🔊
← At Oxford I was still in statu pupillary. 🔊
← I remember pausing before a wide door-step and wondering if perchance it was on this very one that the young De Quincey lay ill and faint while poor Ann flew as fast as her feet would carry her to Oxford Street, the "stony-hearted stepmother" of them both, and came back bearing that "glass of port wine and spices" but for which he might, so he thought, actually have died. 🔊