human
Ah! if Grace had been here! cried one,
gpt
Ah! that would ha' been as nat'ral as life!
human
Silence, you! says Gentleman Jan, who generally feels a mission to teach the rest of the quay good manners,
gpt
Not a bit! whatever you like. I could not have a better figure for the centre. I'll begin again.
human
Oh, do come and sit among the children, Grace!
gpt
No, thank your ladyship.
human
Excuse me, my lady, and she slipped into the crowd; but as she went she spoke low, but clear enough to be heard by all:
gpt
No: it will be time enough to flatter me, and ask for my picture, when you do what I tell you--what God tells you!
human
What's that, then, Grace dear?
gpt
You know! I've asked you to save your own lives from cholera, and you have not the common sense to do it. Let me go home and pray for you!
human
She'm gone mad after that doctor, I think, with his muck-hunting notions.
gpt
What a face!
human
Is it not? Come and see her in her school, when the children go in at two o'clock. Ah! there are Scoutbush and St. Père.
gpt
We are going to the school, my lord. Don't you think that, as patron of things in general here, it would look well if you walked in, and signified your full approbation of what you know nothing about?
human
So much so, that I was just on my way there with Campbell. But I must just speak to that lime-burning fellow. He wants a new lease of the kiln, and I suppose he must have it. At least, here he comes, running at me open-mouthed, and as dry as his own waistband. It makes one thirsty to look at him. I'll catch you up in five minutes!