human
Don't let's have a quarrel here, said Mr. Lupton.
gpt
I shall leave the room if you do.
human
If we must break up, let us break up in peace and quietness,
gpt
Of course, if there is to be a fight, I'm good to go out with anybody, said Dolly.
human
When there's any beastly thing to be done, I've always got to do it. But don't you think that kind of thing is a little slow?
gpt
Who began it? said Sir Felix, sitting down again. Whereupon Lord Grasslough, who had finished his dinner, walked out of the room.
human
That fellow is always wanting to quarrel.
gpt
There's one comfort, you know, said Dolly.
human
It wants two men to make a quarrel.
gpt
Yes; it does, said Sir Felix, taking this as a friendly observation;
human
Oh, yes, I meant it fast enough, said Grasslough afterwards up in the card-room. The other men who had been together had quickly followed him, leaving Sir Felix alone, and they had collected themselves there not with the hope of play, but thinking that they would be less interrupted than in the smoking-room.
gpt
I don't suppose we shall ever any of us be here again, and as he did come in I thought I would tell him my mind.
human
What's the use of taking such a lot of trouble? said Dolly.
gpt
Of course he's a bad fellow. Most fellows are bad fellows in one way or another.
human
But he's bad all round,
gpt
And so this is to be the end of the Beargarden, said Lord Nidderdale with a peculiar melancholy.
human
Dear old place! I always felt it was too good to last. I fancy it doesn't do to make things too easy;--one has to pay so uncommon dear for them! And then, you know, when you've got things easy, then they get rowdy;--and, by George, before you know where you are, you find yourself among a lot of blackguards. If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other. I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam.
gpt
If Solomon, Solon, and the Archbishop of Canterbury were rolled into one, they couldn't have spoken with more wisdom,
human
Live and learn, continued the young lord.
gpt
I don't think anybody has liked the Beargarden so much as I have, but I shall never try this kind of thing again. I shall begin reading blue books to-morrow, and shall dine at the Carlton. Next session I shan't miss a day in the House, and I'll bet anybody a fiver that I make a speech before Easter. I shall take to claret at 20_s._ a dozen, and shall go about London on the top of an omnibus.
human
How about getting married?
gpt
Oh;--that must be as it comes. That's the governor's affair. None of you fellows will believe me, but, upon my word, I liked that girl; and I'd 've stuck to her at last,--only that there are some things a fellow can't do. He was such a thundering scoundrel!
human
We can make up a rubber;--can't we?
gpt
I should say not,
human
I shall not play,
gpt
There isn't a pack of cards in the house,