human
There are some men born to good luck, just as others are born to be hanged --he was saying, with the air of a man delivering an oration--
gpt
Oh, come now, Jernyngham! things are by no means so desperate as you would have me believe, said Lord Villiers, laughing.
human
Young, good-looking, and adored by the ladies, what more would you have?
gpt
Well, there is a vulgar prejudice existing in favor of bread and butter, and neither of the three items mentioned will exactly supply me with that useful article. I intend trying the matrimonial dodge, some day, if I can pick up anything under fifty, with three or four thousand a year, who wants a nice youth to spend it for her.
human
Love, of course, being out of the question.
gpt
Love! said the guardsman, contemptuously.
human
I lost all faith in that article since I was fourteen years old, when I fell in love with our cook, a young lady of six-and-thirty. My father forbade the banns; she ran off with a hump-backed chimney-sweep, and I awoke to the unpleasant consciousness that 'Love's young dream' was all bosh.
gpt
And you have been heart whole ever since?
human
Well, I rather think so. I have felt a peculiar sensation under my vest-pocket now and then, when Kate McGregor's black eyes met mine. But pshaw! where's the use of talking? She's as poor as a church-mouse, and so am I; and, unless we should set up a chandler-shop, there would be a paragraph in the _Times_ headed: 'Melancholy death by starvation. The bodies of an unfortune couple were found yesterday in the attic of a rickety, six-story house, and the coroner's inquest returned a verdict of Death for want of something to eat.
gpt
A pleasant picture that! Well, I shouldn't wonder if it's what 'love in a cottage' often comes to.
human
The ladies are waiting, Jernyngham, he said hastily.
gpt
Call Howard, and come along.