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"My little girl," said he, "has been moping. I am very glad that you called ... very glad indeed. And Sara, my darling...." "Yes, papa." "Have you asked Pensée the name of that extremely pretty song she sang for us when we all dined together at Lord Wight's? You remember the evening?" But Sara, with a wail, fled away.
It was dated plainly, "October 7, 1869," and contained the acknowledgment of two £10 notes won at écarté. "That is the hand," said Pensée. "One could not mistake it." "Then this is really very serious," said Lord Reckage, with twitching lips. "The whole story has had all along something of unreality about it. Robert seems fated to a renunciant career colourless, self-annihilating."
Over all there was an atmosphere of welcome, a genial brightness. The young men were anxious to tell you where the best sport could be got. The young ladies had a merry, genuine, unaffected smile clearly delighted to see you, and not in the least ashamed of it. They showed an evident desire to please, without a trace of an arriére pensée.
Hitherto she had cultivated the friendship with Heath without arrière pensée. Now she was more conscious in it. Her great love of her only child made her wish to study Heath. The more she studied him the more she hoped that her guess about Charmian had been wrong, and yet the more she studied him the better she liked him.
She could not forget the dreadful scene with Sara when that poor girl was endeavouring to reconcile herself to the Duke of Marshire's proposal. Pensée had studied each person concerned in the possible tragedy. She saw that Agnes was by no means serene, that the portrait by Rennes somehow made no progress, that Reckage was feverish and excitable.
"'Upon which, see, paltry La Beaumelle has become my enemy for life! shrieks Voltaire many times afterwards: 'And it was false, I declare to Heaven, and again declare; it was not I, it was D'Argens quizzing me about it, that called his Majesty's attention to that PENSEE of Blockhead La Beaumelle, you treacherous Perpetual President, stirring up enemies against me, and betraying secrets of the King's table. Sorrow on your red wig, and you!
The following pensee of La Bruyere applies to the second half of Amiel's criticism of the French mind: "If you wish to travel in the Inferno or the Paradiso you must take other guides," etc.
Pensée summoned all her energy, and breathed a little prayer for the well-being of the two women whose lives were at stake. "I saw Agnes this morning," she said, speaking at a rapid pace; "she came up for some shopping, and she returned home directly after tea." "She ought to have told me that she was in town," he exclaimed. "My dear Beauclerk, you know her sweetness!
He leant back and relied on his companion's tact to elaborate the theme. Pensée murmured "Dear Agnes! If there are storms, they won't come from her side. She is of a very elevated spirit " He winced, but she continued "Generous, sternly honest, greatly esteemed by every one. Neither pique nor passion nor petty feelings could ever influence her mind.
The writer of pensee is a man of letters, though of a serious type, and therefore he is popular. The philosopher is a specialist, as far as the form of his science goes, though not in substance, and therefore he can never become popular. March 25, 1851.
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