However, the dim and melancholy eye of Penrod showed a pale gleam, and he departed.

He gave Duke a bath.
The entertainment proved damp and discouraging for both parties.

Duke began to tremble even before he was lifted into the water, and after his first immersion he was revealed to be a dog weighing about one-fourth of what an observer of Duke, when Duke was dry, must have guessed his weight to be.

His wetness and the disclosure of his extreme fleshly insignificance appeared to mortify him profoundly.

He wept.