When pain ends, pardon prompt may operate.

There was a good attendance close at hand,

Waiting the issue in the great saloon,

Cousins with consolation and advice.

All things thus happily performed to point,

No wonder at success commensurate.

Once swooning stopped, once anguish subsequent

Raved out,—a sudden resolution chilled

His blood and changed his swimming eyes to stone,

As the poor fellow raised himself upright,