"A youth was there of quiet ways,
A student of old books and days;
"and a
"Theologian from the school
Of Cambridge on the Charles was there.
"And a Poet, and a Spanish Jew, a young Sicilian, and a Musician, all are minutely described."
"Will Minnehaha be the only girl, mother?"
"Why, what a nonsensical question! Perhaps somebody would personate Margaret, the Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuillè, only it would be pleasanter to personate her before
"The dread disease that none can stay,
The pestilence that walks by night,
Took the young bride's sight away.
"And surely some mischievous girl would delight to make believe she was
"A woman bent and gray with years,