Dear Jane assisting him with her kind word.
(’Twas now too late for Toogood to be there,
As habit had compell’d her to repair
Unto her bedroom, for the night’s repose.)
The cloth remov’d, Lord Arnold, quite jocose,
Related one of his adventurous tales,
In which the plunder of some foreign mails
Form’d part the story: Jane felt much amused;
But Hollybrand himself appear’d confused;
As though assured, by its similitude,