human
When are you going home--to the States?
gpt
To-morrow! --with an evolution or two, ending with a sitting position.
human
Well--no--but next month, at furthest.
gpt
We'll go in the same steamer.
human
Agreed.
gpt
Steamer of the 10th?
human
Yes. No, the 1st.
gpt
All right.
human
Where are you going to live?
gpt
San Francisco.
human
That's me!
gpt
Too high--too much climbing
human
What is?
gpt
I was thinking of Russian Hill--building a house up there.
human
Too much climbing? Shan't you keep a carriage?
gpt
Of course. I forgot that.
human
Cal., what kind of a house are you going to build?
gpt
I was thinking about that. Three-story and an attic.
human
But what kind?
gpt
Well, I don't hardly know. Brick, I suppose.
human
Brick--bosh.
gpt
Why? What is your idea?
human
Brown stone front--French plate glass--billiard-room off the dining-room--statuary and paintings--shrubbery and two-acre grass plat --greenhouse--iron dog on the front stoop--gray horses--landau, and a coachman with a bug on his hat!
gpt
By George!
human
Cal., when are you going to Europe?
gpt
Well--I hadn't thought of that. When are you?
human
In the Spring.
gpt
Going to be gone all summer?
human
All summer! I shall remain there three years.
gpt
No--but are you in earnest?
human
Indeed I am.
gpt
I will go along too.
human
Why of course you will.
gpt
What part of Europe shall you go to?
human
All parts. France, England, Germany--Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Syria, Greece, Palestine, Arabia, Persia, Egypt--all over--everywhere.
gpt
I'm agreed.
human
All right.
gpt
Won't it be a swell trip!
human
We'll spend forty or fifty thousand dollars trying to make it one, anyway.
gpt
Higbie, we owe the butcher six dollars, and he has been threatening to stop our--
human
Hang the butcher!
gpt
Amen.