CHAPTER IV.
OUBLIE de Tullie, et brave du Senat.* VOLTAIRE: _Brutus_, Act ii.sc.

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* "Forgotten by Tully and bullied by the Senate." IN the Lords that evening the discussion was animated and prolonged,--it was the last party debate of the session.

The astute Opposition did not neglect to bring prominently, though incidentally, forward the question on which it was whispered that there existed some growing difference in the Cabinet.

Lord Vargrave rose late.

His temper was excited by the good fortune of his day's negotiation; he felt himself of more importance than usual, as a needy man is apt to do when he has got a large sum at his banker's; moreover, he was exasperated by some personal allusions to himself, which had been delivered by a dignified old lord who dated his family from the ark, and was as rich as Croesus.