human
Pollie's own pet girlie, it murmured drowsily, with dry clickings of its tongue against its beak, the words jolting out in foolish twos and threes.
gpt
Hi! p'liceman--murder! fire! thieves!--there's another jolly row downstairs.
human
You do surprise me! And I am more mortified than I can say that you should have the most distant reason, Serena--or Susan either--ever to feel the least slighted in this house. You do surprise me--I can't believe it has been the least intentional on Iglesias' part. But I would not have had anything of the kind happen for twenty pounds.
gpt
Pray don't apologise, George, Serena cried,
human
I am very glad you allow that, Serena,
gpt
Oh! yes. I quite excuse you of any intentional slight, George. I quite trust you. Still, nothing could be more unpleasant than for me to feel that my being here put any restriction upon your friends coming to the house. Of course I know Susan and I move in rather different society from Rhoda and yourself.
human
Yes, he assented hurriedly, agonised as to the wife's feelings--
gpt
And so it is quite possible that I may not suit some of your acquaintances.
human
Excuse me, he panted--
gpt
I am not sure, she returned argumentatively.
human
Not at all sure, George. And nothing could be more unpleasant to me than to feel I was the least in the way. Of course, I should never have come back if I had supposed I should be in the way; but Rhoda made such a point of it.
gpt
Throw a handkerchief over the poor bird's cage, Georgie dear, cried Mrs. Lovegrove from the sofa. Her face was red. She had become distressingly hot and flustered.--
human
And just as I was flattering myself it was all turning out so nicely, too, she said to herself.--
gpt
No, not your own, Georgie dear --this aloud--
human
I think it would be much simpler for me to go,