Concede him then the color charity

Casts on a doubtful course,—if blackish white

Or whitish black, will charity hesitate?

What did he else but act the precept out,

Leave, like a provident shepherd, his safe flock

To follow the single lamb and strayaway?

Best hope so and think so,—that the ticklish time

I' the carriage, the tempting privacy, the last

Somewhat ambiguous accident at the inn,

—All may bear explanation: may? then, must!