human
Send up some one with candles,
gpt
With what?
human
Can-dles; it's too dark now to come down without lights. But don't send immediately; wait fifteen minutes more, so that we can see the moon rise. And, Alan!
gpt
Yes?
human
Please tell them that Mr. Brunetti will stay and dine with us.
gpt
What a career that little girl will have!
human
That excellent fellow, Mackenzie! You can't think how I miss him!
gpt
There is something so tragic in such a death--a man who had everything to live for!
human
How could they go to Rome! That pernicious Roman fever is the curse of Italy.
gpt
Those poor ladies! Directly I heard they had returned to Belmonte, I went up at once to inquire and to leave cards; it is a stricken house! Having said everything that decorum required, he now finally allowed himself to bring out the thought which was in reality filling his mind:
human
What a career that little girl will have! Only nineteen, and so very pretty, so charming. He has left her everything without a condition (save in the event--most improbable at her age--of her dying without children, in which case it goes back to his own relatives), and I am told that he had nearly eight millions of dollars; that is, one million six hundred thousand pounds! They are shrewd in their American way--those ladies; Mrs. North is very shrewd. And mark my words, madam, that little girl will make one of the great matches yet; not pinchbeck; something really good! (His
gpt
Rose, dear, said Miss Jane Wood,
human
I have been twice--all that is necessary for appearances, Aunt Jane. Why should I bother Dorothy now?
gpt
Sympathy--
human
Sympathy! She is in a position to extend it to me. I think she is the very luckiest girl I have ever heard of in my life. All another girl can do in the face of such luck as that is to keep away from it, and not think about it--if she can.
gpt
I am _astonished_!