But I never look at any comment on my
volumes till long afterwards, and I never in my life wrote to a
newspaper." Once, when Chenery, the editor, came to join the table
at the Athenaeum where he and Mr. Cartwright were dining, Kinglake
rose, and removed to another part of the room. "The Times" had
inserted a statement that Madame Novikoff was ordered to leave
England, and he thus publicly resented it. "So unlike me," he
said, relating the story, "but somehow a savagery as of youth came
over me in my ancient days; it was like being twenty years old
again." It came out, however, that "our indiscreet friend Froude"
had written something which justified the paragraph, and Kinglake
sent his amende to Chenery, with whom ordinarily he was on most
friendly terms.
He disliked Irishmen "in the lump," saying that human nature is the
same everywhere except in Ireland. Parnell he personally admired,
though hating Home Rule; and stigmatized as gross hypocrisy the
desertion of him by Liberals after the divorce trial. He was wont
to speak irreverently of Lord Beaconsfield, whom he had known well
at Lady Blessington's in early days.
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