human
No, Aunt Euphemia, she had said.
gpt
I shall wait for daddy-prof and the _Curlew_ to arrive at Boston. Then I shall either go there to meet him, or he will come here. I want him to meet Lawford just as quickly as possible, for we are not going to wait all our lives to be married.
human
Louise! gasped Mrs. Conroth with horror.
gpt
How can you say such a thing!
human
I mean it,
gpt
You are behaving in a most selfish way, the Lady from Poughkeepsie declared.
human
Everybody here has remarked how you have neglected me for those Tapps. They have taken full advantage of your patronage to push themselves into the society of their betters.
gpt
Perhaps, sighed Louise.
human
But consider, auntie. This is a free and more or less independent republic. After all, money is the only recognized mark of aristocracy.
gpt
Money!
human
Yes. How far would the Perritons' blue blood get them--or the Standishes'--or the Graylings'--without money? And consider our own small beginnings. Your great, great, great grandfather was a knight of the yardstick and sold molasses by the quart.
gpt
You are incorrigible, Louise, cried Aunt Euphemia, her fingers in her ears.
human
I will not listen to you. It is sacrilegious.
gpt
It's not a far cry, her niece pursued,