Monsieur Ulysse Muhlhausen proved no less

Nor more than "Gustave," lodging opposite

Monsieur Léonce Miranda's diamond-cave

And ruby-mine, and lacking little thence

Save that its gnome would keep the captive safe,

Never return his Clara to his arms.

For why? He was become the man in vogue,

The indispensable to who went clothed

Nor cared encounter Paris fashion's blame,—

Such miracle could London absence work.