human
You seem to be in a brown study,
gpt
I'm lost in admiration. You must make allowance, Miss Eschelle, for a person from the country.
human
Oh, we are all from the country. That is the beauty of it. There is Mr. Hollowell, used to drive a peddler's cart, or something of that sort, up in Maine, talking with Mr. Stott, whose father came in on the towpath of the Erie Canal. You don't dance? The earl has just been giving me a whirl in the ballroom, and I've been trying to make him understand about democracy.
gpt
Yes, the earl rejoined;
human
Miss Eschelle has been interpreting to me republican simplicity.
gpt
And he cannot point out, Mr. Fairchild, why this is not as good as a reception at St. James. I suppose it's his politeness.
human
Indeed, it is all very charming. It must be a great thing to be the architect of your own fortune.
gpt
Yes; we are all self-made,
human
I am, and I get dreadfully tired of it sometimes. I have to read over the Declaration and look at the map of the Western country at such times. A body has to have something to hold on to.
gpt
Why, this seems pretty substantial,
human
Oh, yes; I suppose the world looks solid from a balloon. I heard one man say to another just now, 'How long do you suppose Henderson will last?' Probably we shall all come down by the run together by-and-by.
gpt
You seem to be on a high plane,
human
I guess it's the influence of the earl. But I am the most misunderstood of women. What I really like is simplicity. Can you have that without the social traditions, she appealed to the earl,
gpt
I really cannot say, the earl replied, laughing.
human
I fancied there was simplicity in Brandon; perhaps that was traditional.
gpt
Oh, Brandon! Carmen cried,