midnight
While Bolingbroke was thus speaking , and Pope listened with all the love and reverence which he evidently bore to his friend stamped upon his worn but expressive countenance , I inly said , `` Surely , the love between minds like these should live and last without the changes that ordinary affections feel ! Who would not mourn for the strength of all human ties , if hereafter these are broken , and asperity succeed to friendship , or aversion to esteem ? _ I _ , a wanderer , without heir to my memory and wealth , shall pass away , and my hasty and unmellowed fame will moulder with my clay ; but will the names of those whom I now behold ever fall languidly on the ears of a future race , and will there not forever be some sympathy with their friendship , softer and warmer than admiration for their fame ? '' We left our celebrated host about two hours before midnight , and returned to Dawley . On our road thither I questioned Bolingbroke respecting Montreuil , and I found that , as I had surmised , he was able to give me some information of that arch-schemer . Gerald 's money and hereditary influence had procured tacit connivance at the Jesuit 's residence in England , and Montreuil had for some years led a quiet and unoffending life in close retirement . `` Lately , however , '' said Bolingbroke , `` I have learned that the old spirit has revived , and I accidentally heard three days ago , when conversing with one well informed on state matters , that this most pure administration has discovered some plot or plots with which Montreuil is connected ; I believe he will be apprehended in a few days . ''