I own that I was much to blame;
I donned his clothes, and took the name
Of Beane—I also took his gold,
About five thousand pounds all told;
And so to Boston, Mass., I came
To found a family and name—
I, who in former times had been
Sir Godfrey’s—”
“Wretch, what do you mean!
Sir Godfrey’s what?” gasped Wentworth Beane.