human
Good-evening, Mr. Garnet, she said, composedly.
gpt
This is an unexpected pleasure. We thought you had gone away.
human
Ah! did you? Gone where, Miss Lawless?
gpt
Well--anywhere--to the county jail, as likely as not; but people don't always get their deserts in this world.
human
Very true, Miss Pet; but you are, at present, in a fair way to get yours.
gpt
Humph! You'll allow me to differ from you, there. I deserve something better than bad company, I hope; so permit me to wish you a very good-evening, Mr. Garnet.
human
Not so fast, Miss Lawless; you must do your humble servant the honor of conferring your company upon him for a few days. As I have not seen you for so long a time, it would be highly impolite, not to say cruel, to hasten away so soon now.
gpt
Indeed! Mr. Garnet--indeed! said Pet, arching her brows.
human
Your lesson in the library did not cure you, I see. Are you aware there is such a thing as a jail in Judestown, where refractory gentlemen who threaten peaceable citizens are sometimes taken for a change of air? Really, Mr. Garnet, I think a little wholesome correction would not hurt you in the least.
gpt
No, Miss Lawless, I have not forgotten that scene in the library of your father's house, said Garnet, tightening his grasp, till Pet winced with pain.
human
My hand bears the mark of your sharp teeth yet; and as I am deeply your debtor for that Judas-kiss, I shall pay you in your own coin before either of us are many hours older. Did you think how near retribution was when you gave me that sharp caress, Miss Lawless?
gpt
Petronilla Lawless, take care!
human
Take care of what? I'm not afraid of you, Rozzel Garnet, flashed Pet.
gpt
Anything in the shape of a man who would go round playing the spy on an unprotected girl, has sunk rather low to be feared by me. Take care, you! I vow if there is such a thing as a cowhide in the country, I shall have you thrashed for this, within an inch of your cowardly life.
human
And get your attached friend, the gipsy beggar, to administer it--eh, Miss Lawless? he said, with the smile of a fiend.
gpt
What a pity he is not here, like a true knight-errant, to rescue his lady-love!
human
It's well for you he's not, or he wouldn't leave a whole bone in your miserable skin. Let me go, I tell you! Your presence is pollution,
gpt
I told you when we would meet again you would plead to me, he said, with an evil gleam of his snake-like eyes.
human
That time has come.
gpt
Has it, indeed? said Pet.
human
Well, if you have heard or are likely to hear me pleading to anybody under heaven, I must say you have a wonderful pair of ears. I have read of a gentleman called Fine-ear, who could hear the grass growing; but, upon my word, he couldn't hold a candle to you!
gpt
The time will come, girl, when you will grovel and plead at my very feet, only to be spurned!
human
Now, Mr. Garnet, look here, said Pet;
gpt
Cease this fooling, said Garnet, angrily,