1872-1876] LOUIS Napoleon 211 



Tlmma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. 



DOWN, Tuesday [21 Jan., 1873]. 



. . . We are to have Fanny and Hensleigh on Monday, 

 1 am glad to say, to meet Moiicure Conway. We have just 

 been reading a very grand sermon of his on Darwinism. 

 I sometimes feel it very odd that anyone belonging to me 

 should be making such a noise in the world. . . . Henrietta 

 comes on Wednesday. She has been going to a working- 

 man's ball and danced with a grocer and a shoemaker, who 

 looked and behaved exactly like everybody else and were 

 quite as well dressed. The ladies were nicely dressed but 

 not expensively, and much more decently than their betters 

 are in a ball-room now-a-days. 



I have been rather cross at all the adulation about Louis 

 Napoleon. Really Mr Goddard's (the priest at Chiselhurst) 

 sermon might have been preached about a saint, and then 

 would have been thought exaggerated. 



Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Darwin. 



MY DEAR EMMA, February 26th, 1873. 



I had so nice a letter from Henrietta that I feel 

 inclined to tell you so, and to thank you for a dear letter 

 I had from you now a fortnight ago. I keep all your 

 letters and shall leave them to Bessy most likely, or Horace, 

 and this last is missing in consequence of Harry's forgetting 

 to return it. ... It is now a fortnight since 1 have been out 

 of doors; it is so mild to-day that I think I shall try a little 

 pacing behind the hedge. 



I do not know whether you touch C. Voysey's writings. 

 I was ple&sed with his last discourse, Man the only Revela- 

 tion of God. I do not know whether it was in this sermon 

 that a word displeased Elizth. With Harriet's reading many 

 a word falls harmless on my hearing. I take the subject in 

 only. Elizth. objects to pathos in novels, and this also falls 

 very harmless on me the pathos of life kills that and 

 would never draw a sad feeling from me. . . . 



