human
Indeed, papa, I think it's very hard,
gpt
What's hard? I think a great many things are hard; but I have to bear them.
human
You can do nothing for me.
gpt
Do nothing for you! Haven't you got a home to live in, and clothes to wear, and a carriage to go about in,--and books to read if you choose to read them? What do you expect?
human
You know, papa, that's nonsense.
gpt
How do you dare to tell me that what I say is nonsense?
human
Of course there's a house to live in and clothes to wear; but what's to be the end of it? Sophia, I suppose, is going to be married.
gpt
I am happy to say she is,--to a most respectable young man and a thorough gentleman.
human
And Dolly has his own way of going on.
gpt
You have nothing to do with Adolphus.
human
Nor will he have anything to do with me. If I don't marry what's to become of me? It isn't that Mr. Brehgert is the sort of man I should choose.
gpt
Do not mention his name to me.
human
But what am I to do? You give up the house in town, and how am I to see people? It was you sent me to Mr. Melmotte.
gpt
I didn't send you to Mr. Melmotte.
human
It was at your suggestion I went there, papa. And of course I could only see the people he had there. I like nice people as well as anybody.
gpt
There's no use talking any more about it.
human
I don't see that. I must talk about it, and think about it too. If I can put up with Mr. Brehgert I don't see why you and mamma should complain.
gpt
A Jew!
human
People don't think about that as they used to, papa. He has a very fine income, and I should always have a house in--
gpt
Look here, he said,
human
Oh, Georgey, said Sophia,
gpt
I suppose it seems wonderful that anybody should be going to be married except yourself.
human
No;--but such a very odd match!
gpt
Look here, Sophia. If you don't like it, you need not talk about it. We shall always have a house in town, and you will not. If you don't like to come to us, you needn't. That's about all.
human
George wouldn't let me go there at all,
gpt
Then--George--had better keep you at home at Toodlam. Where's mamma? I should have thought somebody might have come and met me to say a word to me, instead of allowing me to creep into the house like this.
human
Mamma isn't at all well; but she's up and in her own room. You mustn't be surprised, Georgey, if you find mamma very--very much cut up about this.
gpt
So I've come back,
human
Oh, Georgiana; oh, Georgiana! said Lady Pomona, slowly raising herself and covering her face with one of her hands.
gpt
This is dreadful. It will kill me. It will indeed. I didn't expect it from you.
human
What is the good of all that, mamma?
gpt
It seems to me that it can't be possible. It's unnatural. It's worse than your wife's sister. I'm sure there's something in the Bible against it. You never would read your Bible, or you wouldn't be going to do this.
human
Lady Julia Start has done just the same thing,--and she goes everywhere.
gpt
What does your papa say? I'm sure your papa won't allow it. If he's fixed about anything, it's about the Jews. An accursed race;--think of that, Georgiana;--expelled from Paradise.
human
Mamma, that's nonsense.
gpt
Scattered about all over the world, so that nobody knows who anybody is. And it's only since those nasty Radicals came up that they have been able to sit in Parliament.
human
One of the greatest judges in the land is a Jew,
gpt
Nothing that the Radicals can do can make them anything else but what they are. I'm sure that Mr. Whitstable, who is to be your brother-in-law, will never condescend to speak to him.