Of money they talk'd the whole day round,

And weigh'd desert, like grapes, by the pound,

Till she had an idea from the very sound

That people with nought were naughty.

LXXIII.

They praised—poor children with nothing at all!

Lord! how you twaddle and waddle and squall

Like common-bred geese and ganders!

What sad little bad little figures you make

To the rich Miss K., whose plainest seed-cake