human
Oh, laughing, and flirting, and shaking her long curls back, and looking up to their faces--perfectly disgusting!
gpt
Pretty much so, Emma.
human
And then, dressed--oh, you never saw a girl so bedizzened!
gpt
Strange! said Mrs. Castleton.
human
Oh, it all depends very much upon the _clique_ in which a man sees a girl how she strikes him, said Tom.
gpt
Miss Dawson's manners are very much those of the girls around her, quite as good, if not better; then she is really handsome--moreover, very much admired, the belle of the set; and Harry's vanity is rather flattered, I suppose, by the preference she shows him.
human
You think, then, she likes him?
gpt
I know nothing more about it than you do, replied Tom.
human
I suppose she must, for she certainly could marry richer men than Harry if she wanted to. She has the merit, at least, of disinterestedness.
gpt
Harry would be a great match for her, said Emma, indignantly--
human
Yes, I suppose that has something to do with it, replied Tom.
gpt
You women all think so much of such things.
human
Strange! repeated Mrs. Castleton,
gpt
I don't know how Harry can fancy such a girl.
human
Don't you know all objects vary according to the light they are in, said Tom.
gpt
If Harry saw Miss Dawson among young ladies of a different style and stamp, the changes of the 'dissolving views' would not be greater. The present picture would fade away, and a new, and in all probability a very different one, would take its place.
human
That's a good idea! exclaimed Mrs. Castleton, suddenly, and clapping her hands joyfully.
gpt
I'll call and ask her to my party for the bride.
human
What do you mean, Laura?
gpt
Why, to follow out Tom's idea, she said.
human
It's excellent! I'm going to give Mrs. Flemming a party. I'll make it very select, and not large; invite all the prettiest and most elegant girls, and then play amiable to Harry, by telling him I'll call upon his Miss Dawson and invite her.
gpt
I don't like our countenancing the thing in this way.
human
You need have nothing to do with it, returned her sister.
gpt
As it seems you and Harry have had words about it, you had better not; but _I_'ll call--I'll have her. And it shall be such an elegant, select little affair that it will show her off to charming advantage, she continued, with much animation, delighted with her own cleverness in the scheme.
human
He can't help but be ashamed of her. Don't you think so, Tom?
gpt
Now, Tom, said she, a little disappointed,
human
There's a good chance of it, certainly, he replied.
gpt
You can but try it.
human
Then why do you laugh,
gpt
Only to see what spiteful creatures you women are, he continued, smiling.
human
To see the pains you'll take to put down a girl you don't happen to fancy.
gpt
Surely, you yourself, Tom, commenced Mrs. Castleton, seriously, and
human
I am sure, Tom, chimed in Emma, in the same breath,