human
What is the class, Lady Marabout, may I ask?
gpt
Those clever, detestable, idle, good-for-nothing, fashionable, worthless men about town, who have not a penny to their fortune, and spend a thousand a year on gloves and scented tobacco--who are seen at everybody's house, and never at their own--who drive horses fit for a Duke's stud, and haven't money enough to keep a donkey on thistles--who have handsome faces and brazen consciences--who are positively leaders of ton, and yet are glad to write feuilletons before the world is up to pay their stall at the Opera--who give a guinea for a bouquet, and can't pay a shilling of their just debts,--I detest the class, my dear!
human
So it seems, Lady Marabout. I never heard you so vehement. And who is the particular scapegoat of this type of sinners?
gpt
Chandos Cheveley.
human
Chandos Cheveley? Isn't he that magnificent man Sir Philip introduced to me at the Amandines' breakfast yesterday? Why, Lady Marabout, his figure alone might outbalance a multitude of sins!
gpt
He is handsome enough. _Did_ Philip introduce him to you, my dear? I wonder! It was very careless of him. But men _are_ so thoughtless; they will know anybody themselves, and they think we may do the same. The men called here while we were driving this morning. I am glad we were out: he very seldom comes to _my_ house.
human
But why is he so dreadful? The Amandines are tremendously exclusive, I thought.
gpt
Oh, he goes everywhere! No party is complete without Chandos Cheveley, and I have heard that at September or Christmas he has more invitations than he could possibly accept; but he is a most objectionable man, all the same--a man every one dreads to see come near her daughters. He has extreme fascination of manner, but he has not a farthing! How he lives, dresses, drives the horses he does, is one of those miracles of London men's lives which _we_ can never hope to puzzle out. Philip says he likes him, but Philip never speaks ill of anybody, except a woman now and then, who teases him; but the man is my detestation--has been for years. I was annoyed to see his card: it is the first time he has called this season. He knows I can't endure his class or him.