To smell a rat, this scamp Voltaire! Discard
The petticoats too soon,—you'll never show
Your haut-de-chausses and all they've made or marred
In your true person. Here's his servant. Pray,
Will the great man see Demoiselle Malcrais?"
CXXXIV
Now, the great man was also, no whit less,
The man of self-respect,—more great man he!
And bowed to social usage, dressed the dress,