And coaxed his story from him! Don't I see

The pair conversing! It 's a novel writ

Already, I 'll be bound,—our dialogue!

'What?' cried the elder and yet youthful man—

So did the eye flash 'neath the lordly front,

And the imposing presence swell with scorn,

As the haught high-bred bearing and dispose

Contrasted with his interlocutor

The flabby low-born who, of bulk before,

Had steadily increased, one stone per week,