human
This is a terrible business, said Fisker, immediately on entering the room in which Montague was waiting him.
gpt
He was the last man I'd have thought would be cut up in that way.
human
He was utterly ruined.
gpt
He wouldn't have been ruined,--and couldn't have thought so if he'd known all he ought to have known. The South Central would have pulled him through a'most anything if he'd have understood how to play it.
human
We don't think much of the South Central here now,
gpt
Ah;--that's because you've never above half spirit enough for a big thing. You nibble at it instead of swallowing it whole,--and then, of course, folks see that you're only nibbling. I thought that Melmotte would have had spirit.
human
There is, I fear, no doubt that he had committed forgery. It was the dread of detection as to that which drove him to destroy himself.
gpt
I call it dam clumsy from beginning to end;--dam clumsy. I took him to be a different man, and I feel more than half ashamed of myself because I trusted such a fellow. That chap Cohenlupe has got off with a lot of swag. Only think of Melmotte allowing Cohenlupe to get the better of him!
human
I suppose the thing will be broken up now at San Francisco,
gpt
Bu'st up at Frisco! Not if I know it. Why should it be bu'st up? D'you think we're all going to smash there because a fool like Melmotte blows his brains out in London?
human
He took poison.
gpt
Or p'ison either. That's not just our way. I'll tell you what I'm going to do; and why I'm over here so uncommon sharp. These shares are at a'most nothing now in London. I'll buy every share in the market. I wired for as many as I dar'd, so as not to spoil our own game, and I'll make a clean sweep of every one of them. Bu'st up! I'm sorry for him because I thought him a biggish man;--but what he's done 'll just be the making of us over there. Will you get out of it, or will you come back to Frisco with me?
human
And now what about Winifrid Hurtle?
gpt
What makes you ask? She's in London.
human
Oh yes, I know she's in London, and Hurtle's at Frisco, swearing that he'll come after her. He would, only he hasn't got the dollars.
gpt
He's not dead then?
human
Dead!--no, nor likely to die. She'll have a bad time of it with him yet.
gpt
But she divorced him.
human
She got a Kansas lawyer to say so, and he's got a Frisco lawyer to say that there's nothing of the kind. She hasn't played her game badly neither, for she's had the handling of her own money, and has put it so that he can't get hold of a dollar. Even if it suited other ways, you know, I wouldn't marry her myself till I saw my way clearer out of the wood.
gpt
I'm not thinking of marrying her,--if you mean that.
human
There was a talk about it in Frisco;--that's all. And I have heard Hurtle say when he was a little farther gone than usual that she was here with you, and that he meant to drop in on you some of these days.
gpt
I should just go, because I'd taken a salary from the d---- Company, said the careful father,