Prophesy was crowned by Colney's dyspepsia, by Victor's ticklish domestic position.

Their pity for one another, their warm regard, was genuine; only, they were of different temperaments; and we have to distinguish, that in many estimable and some gifted human creatures, it is the quality of the blood which directs the current of opinion.
Victor played-off Colney upon Dudley, for his internal satisfaction, and to lull Nataly and make her laugh; but he could not, as she hoped he was doing, take Colney into his confidence; inasmuch as the Optimist, impelled by his exuberant anticipatory trustfulness, is an author, and does things; whereas the Pessimist is your chaired critic, with the delivery of a censor, generally an undoer of things.

Our Optimy has his instinct to tell him of the cast of Pessimy's countenance at the confession of a dilemma-foreseen! He hands himself to Pessimy, as it were a sugar-cane, for the sour brute to suck the sugar and whack with the wood.

But he cannot perform his part in return; he gets no compensation: Pessimy is invulnerable.

You waste your time in hurling a common 'tu-quoque' at one who hugs the worst.
The three walking in the park, with their bright view, and black view, and neutral view of life, were a comical trio.