human
Have another rubber, Alfred?
gpt
Damn that kind of nonsense, he said.
human
Call people by their proper names. Then he left the house without a further word to the master of it. That night before they went to sleep Melmotte required from his weary wife an account of the ball, and especially of Marie's conduct.
gpt
Marie, Madame Melmotte said,
human
Hitherto Mr. Melmotte had heard very little of
gpt
Sir Carbury, except that he was a baronet. Though his eyes and ears were always open, though he attended to everything, and was a man of sharp intelligence, he did not yet quite understand the bearing and sequence of English titles. He knew that he must get for his daughter either an eldest son, or one absolutely in possession himself. Sir Felix, he had learned, was only a baronet; but then he was in possession. He had discovered also that Sir Felix's son would in course of time also become Sir Felix. He was not therefore at the present moment disposed to give any positive orders as to his daughter's conduct to the young baronet. He did not, however, conceive that the young baronet had as yet addressed his girl in such words as Felix had in truth used when they parted.
human
You know who it is, he whispered,
gpt
Nobody does;--don't, Sir Felix.
human
I do,