| So that as soon as my comrade was decently array'd at the first slopshop we came to, 'twas high time to seek an inn. |
| If any one ventured to complain, 'twas the sufferer, not the inflictor who was treated as culpable. |
| Perchance 'twas some Ionian beauty or Carian girl who had smitten him suddenly. |
| Verily, of the world's women 'twas she was the dearest and loveliest and justest that the eyes of men had ever beheld. |
| And e'en now 'twas my full intent To bid them home to us straightway, And crown the joyance of to-day. |
| The clock ticked and ticked, and 'twas so still you could hear every stroke of the pendulum. |
