human
Tis gone better! Tis gone to the editor--of the greatez' magazine of the worl'!
gpt
Bravo! Sinze how long?
human
A week,
gpt
Hah! and his _rip_-ly?
human
Hasn't come yet.
gpt
Ah, look out, now! Look out he don' steal that! You di'n' write him: 'Wire answer'? You muz' do that! I'll pay it myseff!
human
I thought I'd wait one more day. He may have other manuscripts to consider.
gpt
Mr. Chezter, that manuscrip' is not in a prize contess; 'tis only with itseff! You di'n' say that?
human
I--implied it--as gracefully as I could.
gpt
Ah! graze'--the h-only way to write those fellow, tha'z with the big stick! 'Wire h-answer!'
human
I don' think thad way. Firz' place, big stick or no, that hiztorie is sure to be accept'.
gpt
Aw-w-w! tha'z not to compel the agceptanze; tha'z to scare them from stealing it! And to privend that, there's another thing you want to infer them: that you billong to the Louisiana Branch of the Authors' Protegtive H-union! Ah, doubtlezz you don't--billong; but all the same you can infer them!
human
Well, they are maybe important, those stratagem'; but to me the chieve danger is if maybe _that_ editor shou'n' have the sagacitie--artiztic--commercial--to perceive the brilliancy of thad story.
gpt
Never mine! in any'ow two days we'll know. Scipion! The day avter those two, tha'z a pewblic holiday--everything shut!
human
Yes, well?
gpt
If that news come, 'accepted,' all of us we'll be so please' that we'll be compel to egsprezz that in a joy-ride! and even if 'rifused,' we'll need that joy-ride to swallow the indignation.
human
Ah! but with whose mash-in', so it won't put uz in bankrup'cy?
gpt
With two mash-in'--the two of Thorndyke-Smith! He's offer' to borrow me those whiles he's going to be accrozz the lake. You'll drive the large, me the small.
human
Hah! Tha'z a gran' scheme. At the en', dinner at Antoine', all the men chipping in! Castanado--Dubroca--me--Mr. Chezter, eh?
gpt
With the greatest pleasure if I'm included.
human
Include'--hoh! By the laws of nature!
gpt
We had a dinner like that, Beloiseau said,
human
What four boys?
gpt
You di'n' know abboud those? Ah, well, tha'z maybe biccause we don' speak of them biffo' those ladies Chapdelaine. An' still tha'z droll you di'n' know that, but tha'z maybe biccause each one he's think another he's tol' you, and biccause tha'z not a prettie cheerful subjec', eh? Yes, they are two son' of Dubroca and Castanado, soldier', and two of De l'Isle and me, aviateur'.
human
And up to a few weeks ago they were all well?
gpt
Ah, not well--one wounded, one h'arm broke, one trench-fivver, but all safe, laz' account.
human
Tell me more about them, Beloiseau. You know I don't easily ask personal questions. Tell me all I'm welcome to know, will you?
gpt
I want to do that--to tell you all; but --M. Ducatel, next neighbor above, was approaching--
human
the manuscript once the impressionable Dora's, now the gentle Aline's. The holiday--