His heart has begun to harden.

“But I heard last night from Lord De Vere,

From Boulogne who has just come over here,

The most wonderful adventure;

For his Lordship last season received a ‘call,’—

Not such as those folks who at Exeter Hall

About Popery wrangle, his was all

About railway scrip and debenture.

“He said, one night that, homeward walking,

There were two men before him, talking,