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At this game which was habitual with him, he came naturally to the discovery of the contrary of what appeared at first to be the meaning; passing from hand to hand the idol had become black. Perrotin received Clerambault in this vein, polite, but a trifle absent-minded. Even when he listened to society gossip he was inwardly critical, tickling his sense of humour at its expense.
Perrotin roused himself and said eagerly: "Certainly, show him in at once." Turning to Clerambault he added: "Pardon me, my dear friend, it is the Honourable Under-Secretary of State for Public Instruction."
With brief and passionate touches, Clerambault explained this new ideal, and called on Perrotin to say if to him it seemed true or false; entreating his friend to lay aside considerations of tact or politeness, to speak clearly and frankly. Struck by Clerambault's tragic earnestness, Perrotin changed his tone, and answered in the same key.
In the bottom of his heart he does not believe in it, but like Hamlet, he waits till circumstances shall force his hand. Clerambault was brave enough when he was talking to the indulgent Perrotin, but he had scarcely got home when he was seized again by his hesitations.
When Clerambault was still unknown to the rest of the Immortals, except to one or two brother poets who mentioned him as little as possible with a disdainful smile, Perrotin had already discovered and placed him in his collection, struck by certain pictures, an original phraseology, the mechanism of his imagination, primitive yet complicated by simplicity.
The entire cycle this time was run through in less than four hours the comet having, in that brief space, condensed, with a vivid outburst of light, into a seeming star, and the seeming star having expanded back again into a comet. Scarcely less transient, though not altogether similar, changes of aspect were noted by M. Perrotin, January 13 and 19, 1884.
He noted many brilliant spots on Mars and indicated the disturbing influences of vibrations produced by winds on the surface of our earth in connection with changes in the earth's atmospheric envelope. In 1888 M. Perrotin continued his observations on the channels of Mars and noted changes.
Seeking for someone to share in his excitement and keep it up by fresh arguments, he went to his friend Perrotin. Hippolyte Perrotin was of one of those types, formerly the pride of the higher instruction in France but seldom met with in these days a great humanist. Led by a wide and sagacious curiosity, he walked calmly through the garden of the centuries, botanising as he went.
A strange puzzling statement was made that the canals could be traced straight across seas and continents in the line of the meridian. M. Terby confirmed many of these observations. Later the so-called "inundation of Lydia," observed by M. Perrotin, was doubted. Schiaparelli himself, Terby, Niesten at Brussels, and Holden at the Lick Observatory, failed to remark this change.
He asked Perrotin if he meant to state in public the opinions he had just professed, and Perrotin refused, naturally, laughing at his friend's simplicity. What is more, he cautioned him affectionately against proclaiming such ideas from the house-tops.
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