human
I say, monsieur, what sort of a performance is this? You threaten us with your cane! You nearly put my wife's eye out, and you knocked off her hat, which would have fallen into the street if it hadn't been for the ribbons!
gpt
Oh! monsieur, madame, a thousand pardons! stammered Tobie;
human
I was so preoccupied--I didn't see you.
gpt
What! are we dwarfs?
human
No, monsieur--far from it; you are very tall. But when a man is thinking about something else----
gpt
That's a fine reason! We were thinking of something else, too, monsieur. Do you suppose we were thinking of your cane? By heaven! if you had destroyed my wife's eye, you wouldn't have taken your own home with you!
human
I am sure of it, monsieur; I ask a thousand pardons.
gpt
When you carry a cane, monsieur, you ought to know how to use it.
human
It was because I thought that I was using it that I was gesticulating with it.
gpt
Come, my dear; as monsieur did it accidentally, let's accept his apologies.
human
Accidentally! upon my word, it would be very pretty if he had intended to do it! By all the devils! if I believed that----