human
So! ruminated Mr. Tapp,
gpt
Dorothy Johnson is a really sweet girl, dad, Lawford agreed.
human
I like her.
gpt
There! ejaculated I. Tapp.
human
You let that liking become something stronger. Dorothy's just the girl for you to marry.
gpt
You get my meaning, said his father, scowling.
human
I've always meant you should marry Bill's daughter. I had your mother write her last night inviting her down here. Of course, your mother and the girls think Bill Johnson's folks are too plain. But I'm boss once in a while in my own house.
gpt
And you call mother a matchmaker!
human
I know what I want and I'm going to get it, said I. Tapp doggedly.
gpt
Dorothy is the girl for you. Don't you get entangled with anybody else. Not a penny of my money will you ever handle if you don't do as I say, young man!
human
You needn't holler till you're hit, dad,
gpt
Oh! _I_ sha'n't holler, snarled the Taffy King.
human
I warn you. One such play as that and I'm through with you. I'm willing to support an idle, ne'er-do-well; but he sha'n't saddle himself with one of those theatrical creatures and bring scandal upon the family. Do you know what I was doing when I was your age? I had a booth at 'Gansett, two at Newport, a big one at Atlantic City, and was beginning to branch out. I worked like a dog, too.
gpt
That's why I think I don't have to work, dad,