human
I hope, she said,
gpt
All your people are coming! You know, mother, it is such an awful bore.
human
Madame Melmotte and her daughter will be here.
gpt
One looks such a fool carrying on that kind of thing in one's own house. Everybody sees that it has been contrived. And it is such a pokey, stuffy little place!
human
Felix, I think you must be a fool. I have given over ever expecting that you would do anything to please me. I sacrifice everything for you and I do not even hope for a return. But when I am doing everything to advance your own interests, when I am working night and day to rescue you from ruin, I think you might at any rate help a little,--not for me of course, but for yourself.
gpt
I don't know what you mean by working day and night. I don't want you to work day and night.
human
There is hardly a young man in London that is not thinking of this girl, and you have chances that none of them have. I am told they are going out of town at Whitsuntide, and that she's to meet Lord Nidderdale down in the country.
gpt
She can't endure Nidderdale. She says so herself.
human
She will do as she is told,--unless she can be made to be downright in love with some one like yourself. Why not ask her at once on Tuesday?
gpt
If I'm to do it at all I must do it after my own fashion. I'm not going to be driven.
human
Of course if you will not take the trouble to be here to see her when she comes to your own house, you cannot expect her to think that you really love her.
gpt
Love her! what a bother there is about loving! Well;--I'll look in. What time do the animals come to feed?
human
There will be no feeding. Felix, you are so heartless and so cruel that I sometimes think I will make up my mind to let you go your own way and never to speak to you again. My friends will be here about ten;--I should say from ten till twelve. I think you should be here to receive her, not later than ten.
gpt
If I can get my dinner out of my throat by that time, I will come.
human
I cannot stand this kind of thing, said Mr. Alf, to Mr. Booker.
gpt
There's a regular system of touting got abroad, and I mean to trample it down.
human
If you're strong enough,
gpt
Well, I think I am. I'm strong enough, at any rate, to show that I'm not afraid to lead the way. I've the greatest possible regard for our friend here;--but her book is a bad book, a thoroughly rotten book, an unblushing compilation from half-a-dozen works of established reputation, in pilfering from which she has almost always managed to misapprehend her facts, and to muddle her dates. Then she writes to me and asks me to do the best I can for her. I have done the best I could.
human
What you say is all very right, said Mr. Booker;
gpt
Just so;--and therefore we must make it different. I wonder how our friend Broune felt when he saw that his critic had declared that the 'Criminal Queens' was the greatest historical work of modern days.
human
I didn't see the notice. There isn't much in the book, certainly, as far as I have looked at it. I should have said that violent censure or violent praise would be equally thrown away upon it. One doesn't want to break a butterfly on the wheel;--especially a friendly butterfly.
gpt
As to the friendship, it should be kept separate. That's my idea,
human
I'll never forget what you've done for me,--never!
gpt
Nothing more than my duty,
human
I hope you'll learn to know that a woman can really be grateful,