The awful drawing-room's company

He inadvertently has entered.)

Swift from her side the girlish crowd,

With lovely smiles and limber graces,

Went singly, took their prizes, bowed,

Returning quietly to their places.

Then "Betsey Jane!" and all the rout,

Sweet postulant and nun pedantic,

Beheld that little craft put out

Upon the polished floor's Atlantic.