Men are sometimes stabbed to the heart, shot to the heart; but as to speaking from the heart, or to the heart, or being warm-hearted, or cold-hearted, or broken-hearted, or being all heart, or having no heart--pah! these things are nonsense, Ned.' 'No doubt, sir,' returned his son, seeing that he paused for him to speak.

'No doubt.' 'There's Haredale's niece, your late flame,' said Mr Chester, as a careless illustration of his meaning.

'No doubt in your mind she was all heart once.

Now she has none at all.

Yet she is the same person, Ned, exactly.' 'She is a changed person, sir,' cried Edward, reddening; 'and changed by vile means, I believe.' 'You have had a cool dismissal, have you ?' said his father.