human
It _cannot_ be true, Mr. Buckingham.
gpt
Mrs. Dale is disposed to be facetious, Mrs. St. Clair; you must not swear by everything she says.
human
That is an evasive answer, and I am dying to know; tell me, _dear_ Mrs. Dale, what it means?
gpt
Which, annexation, or Mr. Buckingham?
human
Oh, both, of course,
gpt
Both; well, when I come to take a good look at him, Mrs. St. Clair, he looks important rather than severe, his reason is, he believes, the best part of Canada pines for annexation; _comprenez vous_?
human
Oh, is that what you meant, she replied, with a relieved air, when, catching her son's eye, she said, with assumed carelessness,
gpt
I do miss my men friends so much when they marry.
human
He is as cold as ice, whispered Mr. Cobbe, who, though a man of birth and breeding, prides himself upon being a flirt;
gpt
Nice man, she thought,
human
and, in an undertone, she says,
gpt
That's the way all you men speak of each other, but he is only so before people.
human
You had better throw him over, an Irish heart is warmer than an American,
gpt
But the poor fellow would break his heart,
human
Not he, a successful speculation would console him; and I--and I would console you.
gpt
Are you always so susceptible?
human
No, indeed; but a man doesn't meet as pretty a woman as you every day, as your mirror must tell you.
gpt
How you gentlemen flatter,
human
Not you, and for the moment he meant it; the particular she of the hour feasting on the nectar her soul loves, never dreaming that the next passable looking female in propinquity with him will be also steeped to the lips in the same food,
gpt
Thank you, she said, prettily, and with the faith of her early teens,
human
I must tell you a pretty compliment a gentleman paid me at the 'Kirmiss' last season, he said 'I was a madrigal in Dresden china.'
gpt
Too cold, too cold,