They all seemed to think him so _over-cordial_ in his manner as
not to be sincere--or at any rate to produce the effect of insincerity.
Senior said that one of his sons was for a time private tutor in a
family, while Bunsen himself was one of the King of Prussia's ministers.
I could not very well perceive myself the moral turpitude of this, but
the answer was that it was _infra dig._, and of course that is quite
turpitude enough. At the Hoo I asked Lord Dacre if he knew Bunsen, but
he did not. I should have attached some value to his opinion of him,
because he has no vulgar notions of the above sort, and also because,
having lived at one time in Germany among Germans, he has more means of
estimating justly a mind and nature essentially German like Bunsen's
than most Englishmen, who--the very cleverest among them--understand
_nothing_ that is not themselves, _i.e._ English, in intellect or
character.

Mrs. E---- told me that she had heard from some of the great Oxford dons
that the impression produced among them by the first pupil of Arnold's
who came among them was quite extraordinary--not at all from superior
intelligence or acquirement, but from his being absolutely a _new
creature_ (think of the Scripture use of that term, Hal, and think how
this circumstance illustrates it)--a new _kind_ of man; and that so they
found all his pupils to differ from any young men that had come up to
their colleges before. When I deplored the cessation of this noble and
powerful influence by Arnold's death, she said--what indeed I knew--that
his spirit survived him and would work mightily still. And so of course
it will continue to work, for to the increase of the seed sown by such a
one there is no limit. She told me that one of his pupils--by no means
an uncommon but rather dull and commonplace young man--had said in
speaking of him, "I was dreadfully afraid of Arnold, but there was not
the thing he could have told me to do that I should not instantly and
confidently have set about." What a man! I do wonder if I shall see him
in heaven--as it is called--if ever I get there.

Mrs. E---- told me that Lady Francis [Egerton] knew him, and did not
like him altogether; but then he, it seems, was habitually reserved, and
she neither soft nor warm certainly in her outward demeanor, so perhaps
they _really_ never met at all.... Mrs. E---- said Lady Francis had not
considered her correspondence with Arnold satisfactory. I suspect it was
upon