human
So, said Miss Agnes,
gpt
I did, by Jove. Didn't you?
human
Yes, said Agnes, looking down at her spoon--
gpt
Yes, I admired her; that is, her features are very regular; she's what I call extremely handsome; but there are prettier girls.
human
Yes--here.
gpt
And who are they?
human
Well, I don't say here _now_; but I do think those Miss Dartmores, for instance, who were here last year, and who used to wear those blue dresses, were decidedly prettier. The heroine of Malory, whom you have fallen in love with, seems to me to want animation.
gpt
Why, she couldn't show a great deal of animation over the Litany,
human
I did not see her then; I happened to be praying myself during the Litany,
gpt
It's more than _I_ was,
human
You ought not to talk that way, Mr. Sedley. It isn't _nice_. I wonder you can,
gpt
I would not say it, of course, to strangers, said Tom.
human
But then, I'm so intimate here--and it's really true, that is, I mean, it was to-day.
gpt
I wonder what you go to church for,
human
Well, of course, you know, it's to pray; but I look at the bonnets a little, also; every fellow does. By Jove, if they'd only say truth, I'm certain the clergymen peep--I often saw them. There's that little fellow, the Rev. Richard Pritchard, the curate, you know--I'd swear I've seen that fellow watching you, Agnes, through the chink in the reading-desk door, while the sermon was going on; and I venture to say he did not hear a word of it.
gpt
You ought to tell the rector, if you really saw that,
human
Pray do no such thing, entreated Agnes;
gpt
Certainly, if Mr. Pritchard behaves himself as you describe, said Miss Charity;
human
I'm _not_, upon my honour. I don't say it's the least harm. I don't see how he can help it; I know if _I_ were up in the air--in a reading-desk, with a good chink in the door, where I thought no one could see me, and old Doctor Splayfoot preaching his pet sermon over my head--_wouldn't_ I peep?--that's all.
gpt
Well, I really think, if he makes a habit of it, I _ought_ to speak to Doctor Splayfoot. I think it's my _duty_,