human
You are here after all, then? said the Spaniard, who came up and joined him.
gpt
You are looking for your friend, I suppose?
human
Indeed I am surprised not to see him here. His mask is remarkable enough.
gpt
Only conceive what the strange fellow is about, said the young officer.
human
He has not danced once since he has been in the saloon. Directly he entered he fell in with his friend Anderson, who, it seems, has just come back from his travels. Their conversation fell upon literature; and as Anderson did not know the new poem which has just come out, nothing would satisfy Mr. Roderick but that they must shut themselves up in one of the back rooms; and there he is now with a single candle reading the whole production aloud to him.
gpt
That is so like him, answered Emilius.
human
He is made up of whims and fancies. I have done all I could--I have even risked one or two friendly quarrels--to cure him of this way of living so altogether extempore, gambling away his existence in impromptus; but these follies are so grown into his heart, that he would sooner lose his dearest friend than part with them. This book you speak of he professes to be passionately fond of, and always has it about with him. The other day I asked him to read it to me, and he began to do so. We had scarcely got beyond the opening, and I had begun to enter into the beauties of it, when suddenly he jumped up, ran out of the room, and presently came back with the cook's apron on, made a prodigious fuss to light a fire, and all to do me a beef-steak, for which I had not the slightest inclination, and which, though he fancies he does them better than any one in Europe, few people that have tried once are very anxious to attempt a second time.
gpt
Has he never been in love?
human
After his fashion, said Emilius bitterly;