human
Evening Pulpit
gpt
If this goes on much longer I shall cut it,
human
Think of me, governor, said the son.
gpt
I have to be in the city four or five times a week.
human
You've a regular salary.
gpt
Come, governor; you've done pretty well for that. What's my salary to the shares you've had? The thing is;--will it last?
human
How last?
gpt
There are a good many who say that Melmotte will burst up.
human
I don't believe it, said Lord Alfred.
gpt
They don't know what they're talking about. There are too many in the same boat to let him burst up. It would be the bursting up of half London. But I shall tell him after this that he must make it easier. He wants to know who's to have every ticket for the dinner, and there's nobody to tell him except me. And I've got to arrange all the places, and nobody to help me except that fellow from the Herald's office. I don't know about people's rank. Which ought to come first: a director of the bank or a fellow who writes books?
human
And you shall come to us for three days,--after it's over,