His aunt has 'rafts' of money, and she has no other heirs - "
"Aha, my dearest daughter," said old Carter, full of glee,
"We'll conciliate his feelings and invite him here to tea."
That graduate has vanished, and the callers are all gone;
Both misanthropic Seniors and "business men" now shun
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The abode of Mr. Carter, who nurses his despair
With thoughts of the wrong treatment he adopted for that heir.
No college men, with their degrees, now seek the fair one's door;
The "muffs," who came to see her once, now visit her no more,
For legends of that Bowdoin man have travelled near and far,
And turned men's love for Bella to a dread of her papa.
D.
* The author pleads guilty of plagiarism only so far as the title is concerned.