To serve the year’s engagement he had made
With the new occupants now at the Hall;—
For all the Prews were gone—yes, one and all
Were gone to their long home! So George worked on
Until these eight months’ solitude had flown:
But not a week pass’d by without the post
Convey’d to Hollybrand (from one who cost
Him many a tear) a letter; which scann’d o’er,
Infused in George—a hundred times or more—
A gleam of joy; and, oft when he would pore