of a pleasant evening

Add this, "of a pleasant _______ evening" to the list of things deleted in revision of Scenes Beyond the Western Border that appear in Pierre.  Along with the embrace of enthusiasm.

August 1852:

C. " ... You will allow me at least, on your own recommendation to note the fact in my journal?" 

F. " Of course; but with becoming modesty. It is enough to ruffle one, to have such a long word thrust at him, of a pleasant summer evening, and a thousand miles from a library." 

C. "But, good heavens! do not condemn a word for its length. Paleontology is an almost poetical triumph, which throws an attractive grace over the sterility of geognostic investigations and symbols on the human tombs, which throw beams of startling light over the obscurity of fabulous antiquity,—so when we discover the traces or remains of existing, or the extinct life of the old world, their natural tombs—the fossil rocks—are monuments on which Time thus records their relative ages. It is a beautiful chronometry of the earth's surface!"  (Scenes Beyond the Western Border, August 1852)

Pierre (1852):

On some distant business, with a farmer-tenant, he had been absent from the mansion during the best part of the day, and had but just come home, early of a pleasant moonlight evening, when Dates delivered a message to him from his mother, begging him to come for her about half-past seven that night to Miss Llanyllyn's cottage, in order to accompany her thence to that of the two Miss Pennies.  (Pierre)

While we're at it, let's add "chronometry" as well, also deleted in revision of Scenes Beyond the Western Border for the 1857 book:

Friend.—I am decidedly non-committal; but it is enough to ruffle one, to have such a long word thrust at him, amid all the charm of a complete laisser aller in a glorious wilderness, a thousand miles from all the schools of pedantic, groping, and guessing philosophy.

"But, good heavens! do not condemn a word for its length. Paleontology is an almost poetical triumph, which throws an attractive grace over the sterility of geognostic investigation. As we eagerly decipher the inscriptions and symbols on the human tombs, which throw beams of startling light over the obscurity of fabulous antiquity;—so, when we discover the traces or remains of the extinct life of the old world, their natural tombs—the fossil rocks—are monuments by which Time thus records their relative ages."

Friend. —Allow me then a few years of devotion to the study of the analysis of primitive zoology and botany, and I will then, if possible, give you my speculations with all the boldness of poetical science upon the formation and age of the continent—all by the light of your chronological, fossiliferous, infernal shell!
(Scenes and Adventures in the Army 360)

See, no more reference to chronometry after revision. Plenty of references to chronometry in Pierre, however, once Melville introduces and begins to describe the damaged pamphlet of Plotinus Plinlimmon titled CHRONOMETRICALS AND HOROLOGICALS.

"Bacon's brains were mere watch-maker's brains; but Christ was a chronometer; and the most exquisitely adjusted and exact one, and the least affected by all terrestrial jarrings, of any that have ever come to us." 

(from Plinlimmon's pamphlet-lecture on Chronometricals and Horologicals in Pierre)