Trousers cut on these
principles entail only two inconveniences, to which every one with the
true feelings of a gentleman would willingly submit. You must never
attempt to sit down in your walking trousers, or venture to assume an
upright position in your equestrians, for compound fractures in the region
of the _os sacrum_, or dislocations about the _genu patellae_ are certain
to be the results of such rashness, and then
[Illustration: "THE PEACE OF THE VALET IS FLED."]
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SONGS FOR THE SENTIMENTAL. -- NO. 6.
Thou hast humbled the proud,
For my spirit hath bow'd
More humbly to thee than it e'er bow'd before;
But thy pow'r is past,
Thou hast triumph'd thy last,
And the heart you enslaved beats in freedom once more!
I have treasured the flow'r
You wore but an hour,
And knelt by the mound where together we've sat;
But thy-folly and pride
I now only deride--
So, fair Isabel, take your change out of that!
That I loved, and how well,
It were madness to tell
To one who hath mock'd at my madd'ning despair.
Like the white wreath of snow
On the Alps' rugged brow,
Isabel, I have proved thee as cold as thou'rt fair!
'Twas thy boast that I sued,
That you scorn'd as I woo'd--
Though thou of my hopes were the Mount Ararat;
But to-morrow I wed
Araminta instead--
So, fair Isabel, take your change out of that!
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THE LAST HAUL.
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