Hail’d Toogood,[201] who (both elderly and kind,
And one to whom Jane could unfold her mind)
Came ’cross the hall, and bow’d and shook the hand
And made th’ acquaintance of Jane Hollybrand.
[199] See Ossian’s “Songs of Selma.”
[200] Of flowers.
[201] An elderly aunt, formerly a faithful companion to the late Lady Mountjoy.
IV.
Transcendent morn ’rose o’er yon barley-field;