VII.

I do not know; it may have been her hose that took poor Rendall in,

Who previously had flirted with her elder sister, Gwendoline.

This Rendall was a wholesale dealer, very rich and large in all

His habits, though he always said his profits were but marginal.

Well, Rendall kept on waddling round her, like a tired and tardy yak;

His movements showed beyond a doubt that his disease was cardiac;

He took her on the river; after thinking for a time, aloud

He said, "I will propose to you; that is, of course, if I'm allowed."

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