Henry Aldrich.
ARHAM] having expressed himself in terms of abhorrence of a piece of baseness and treachery which came under his notice, he was addressed by the delinquent with—"Well, sir, perhaps some day you may come to change your opinion of me!" "Perhaps I may, sir," was the reply; "for if I should find any one who holds a more contemptible opinion of you than I do myself, I should lay down my own and take up his."
R. H. D. Barham, Life of Barham.
FALSE LOVE'S QUIRK.
H, sweet one!" sighs the lover,
"Could I but this discover,—
Thy breast so softly moving,
Will it ever cease from loving?"
Says she, her eyes upturning,
"The love within me burning
No time can ever smother"—
For some one or another!
Lord Southesk, Greenwood's Farewell.
