Was all in darkness; though from overhead

The flickering gas-light dimly flared: but she

Not less through all bore up, till, last she gave

The signal to the workmen in the flats,

And round upon the pivot slow she turned.

Then rode she back, clothed all in silken tights:

And one low Gent, decked out in Joinville tie,

The certain symbol of a Gentish taste,

Using an ivory opera-glass he'd hired,

Peeped—but the glasses, ere he had his fill,