I hardly know
whether they are not true: whether they do not live near us somewhere.
They were alive, and I heard their voices, but five minutes since was
touched by their grief. And have we parted with them here on a sudden,
and without so much as a shake of the hand? Is yonder line (----) which I
drew with my own pen, a barrier between me and Hades as it were, across
which I can see those figures retreating and only dimly glimmering?
Before taking leave of Mr. Arthur Pendennis, might he not have told us
whether Miss Ethel married anybody finally? It was provoking that he
should retire to the shades without answering that sentimental question.
But though he has disappeared as irrevocably as Eurydice, these minor
questions may settle the major one above mentioned. How could Pendennis
have got all that information about Ethel's goings-on at Baden, and with
Lord Kew, unless she had told somebody--her husband, for instance, who,
having made Pendennis an early confidant in his amour, gave him the whole
story? Clive, Pendennis writes expressly, is travelling abroad with his
wife.
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