human
She has taken his money all the same.
gpt
How do you know?
human
I know very well. You are so infatuated by that young woman that you will believe nothing against her.
gpt
I am infatuated with her voice; I know what she is going to do in the world. Old Barytone told me that he had never heard such a voice from a woman's mouth since the days of Malibran; and if there is a man who knows one voice from another, it is Barytone. He can taste the richness of the instrument down to its lowest tinkling sound.
human
And you would marry such a one as she for her voice.
gpt
And she can act. Ah! if you could have acted as she does, it might have been different.
human
She has got a husband just the same as me.
gpt
I don't believe it; but never mind, I would risk all that. And I will do it yet. If you will only keep your toe in your pump, we will have such a company as nothing that Le Gros can do will be able to cut us down.
human
And she is taking money from that lord.
gpt
They all take money from lords, he replied.
human
What does it matter? And she is as stout a piece of goods as ever you came across. She has given me more impudence in the last eight months than ever I took from any of them. And by Jupiter I never so much as got a kiss from her.
gpt
A kiss!
human
And she has hit me a box on the cheek which I have had to put up with. She has always got a dagger about her somewhere, to give a fellow a prod in her passion. Here Mr. Moss laughed or affected to laugh at the idea of the dagger.
gpt
I tell you that she would have it into a fellow in no time.
human
Then why don't you leave her alone? A little wizened monkey like that! It was thus that Madame Socani expressed her opinion of her rival.
gpt
A creature without an ounce of flesh on her bones. Her voice won't last long. It never does with those little mean made apes. There was Grisi and Tietjens,--they had something of a body for a voice to come out of. And here is this girl that you think so much of, taking money hand over hand from the very first lord she comes across.
human
I don't believe a word of it,
gpt
You'll find that it is true. She will go away to some watering-place in the autumn, and he'll be after her. Did you ever know him spare one of them? or one of them, poor little creatures, that wouldn't rise to his bait?
human
She has got her father with her.
gpt
Her father! What is the good of fathers? He'll take some of the money, that's all. I'll tell you what it is, Moss, if you don't drop her you and I will be two.
human
With all my heart, Madame Socani, said Moss.
gpt
I have not the slightest intention of dropping her. And as for you and me, we can get on very well apart.