human
How jolly for you!
gpt
It will be a change, you know.
human
No end of a change. Is any one going with you?
gpt
Well;--yes. I've got a travelling companion;--a very pleasant fellow, who knows a lot, and will be able to coach me up in things. There's a deal to be learned by going abroad, you know.
human
A sort of a tutor,
gpt
A parson, I suppose,
human
Well;--he is a clergyman. Who told you?
gpt
It's only my inventive genius. Well;--yes; I should say that would be nice,--travelling about Europe with a clergyman. I shouldn't get enough advantage out of it to make it pay, but I fancy it will just suit you.
human
It's an expensive sort of thing;--isn't it?
gpt
Well;--it does cost something. But I've got so sick of this kind of life;--and then that railway Board coming to an end, and the club smashing up, and--
human
Marie Melmotte marrying Fisker,
gpt
That too, if you will. But I want a change, and a change I mean to have. I've seen this side of things, and now I'll have a look at the other.
human
Didn't you have a row in the street with some one the other day? This question was asked very abruptly by Lord Grasslough, who, though he was sitting near them, had not yet joined in the conversation, and who had not before addressed a word to Sir Felix.
gpt
We heard something about it, but we never got the right story.