Which Sarah thought indelicate, and Peter very coarse.
And Peter in a tremble to the blushing maid would say,
"You must excuse papa, Miss Bligh,—it is his mountain way."
Says Sarah, "His behaviour I'll endeavour to forget,
But your papa's the coarsest person that I ever met.
"He plighted us without our leave, when we were very young,
Before we had begun articulating with the tongue.
His underbred suggestions fill your Sarah with alarm;
Why, gracious me! he'll ask us next to walk out arm-in-arm!"