human
Are you going ashore again to the show to-night?
gpt
Yes, Vane answered.
human
It's a long while since I've struck an entertainment of any kind, and that yellow-haired mite's dancing is one of the prettiest things I've seen.
gpt
You've been twice already, Carroll hinted.
human
The girl with the blue eyes sings her first song rather well.
gpt
I think so, Vane agreed with a significant absence of embarrassment.
human
In this case a good deal depends on the singing--the interpretation, isn't it? The thing's on the border, and I've struck places where they'd have made it gross; but the girl only brought out the mischief. Strikes me she didn't see there was anything else in it
gpt
That's curious, considering the crowd she goes about with. Aren't you cultivating a critical faculty?
human
She's Irish; that accounts for a good deal.
gpt
If I knew how to do it, I'd like to give five or ten dollars to the child who dances. It must be a tough life, and her mother--the woman at the piano--looks ill. I wonder whatever brought them to a place like this?
human
Struck a cold streak at Nanaimo, the storekeeper told me. Anyway, since we're to start at sunup, I'm staying here. Then he smiled.
gpt
Has it struck you that your attendance in the front seats is liable to misconception?