From Hensleigh Wedgwood [March 1870]1
1 Cumberland Place, | Regent’s Park. N.W.
“Here the grey man expressed his astonishment and disapprobation by a prolonged whistle”
—Wenderholme II. 91.2
This is the interjection whew! But why does disagreeable surprise so express itself? I think it is rather when something turns out the contrary of what one expects.
The fox scheming to catch a goose would picture to himself the goose in some of its usual haunts, then he would imagine some way of pouncing upon it,
CD annotations
Bibliography
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. 1869. Wenderholme: a story of Lancashire and Yorkshire. 3 vols. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood.
Summary
On the expression of disagreeable surprise.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7122
- From
- Hensleigh Wedgwood
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Cumberland Place, 1
- Source of text
- DAR 181: 56
- Physical description
- inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7122,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7122.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18