human
What will our friends think of you? demanded Mrs. Conroth.
gpt
I am horrified to have them know you ever remained overnight in such a place. There are the Perritons. They were on the train with me coming down from Boston. They are opening their house here at what they call The Beaches--one of the most exclusive colonies on the coast, I understand. They insisted upon my coming there at once, and I have promised to bring you with me.
human
You have promised more than you can perform. Aunt Euphemia, Louise replied shortly.
gpt
I will remain here.
human
Louise!
gpt
I will remain here with Cap'n Amazon. And with Uncle Abram when he returns. They are both dear old men----
human
That awful looking pirate!
gpt
You do not know him, returned the girl.
human
You do not know how worthy and now kind he is.
gpt
You have only known him a week yourself, remarked Aunt Euphemia.
human
What can a young girl like you know about these awful creatures--fishermen, sailors, and the like? How can you judge?
gpt
Why, Auntie, you know I have seen much of the world and many more people than you have. And if I have not learned to judge those I meet by this time I shall never learn, though I grow to be as old as --she came near saying
human
but substituted instead--
gpt
But what shall I say to them?
human
What have you already said?
gpt
I said I expected you were waiting for me at Cardhaven. I would not come over from Paulmouth in their car, but hurried on ahead. I wished to save you the disgrace--yes, _disgrace_!--of being found here in this--this country store. Ugh!
human
I am determined that they shall not know your poor, dear father unfortunately married beneath him.
gpt
Aunt Euphemia! exclaimed Louise, her gray eyes flashing now.
human
Don't say that. It offends me. Daddy-prof never considered my mother or her people beneath his own station.
gpt
Your father, Louise, is a fool!
human
As he is your brother as well as my father, Louise told her coldly,
gpt
I presume you feel you have a right to call him what you please. But I assure you, Aunt Euphemia, it does not please me to hear you do so.
human
You are a very obstinate girl!
gpt
That attribute of my character I fancy I inherit from daddy-professor's side of the family,
human
I shall be shamed to death! I must accept the Perritons' invitation. I already have accepted it. They will think you a very queer girl, to say the least.
gpt
I am, her niece told her, the gray eyes smiling again, for Louise was soon over her wrath.
human
Even daddy-prof says that.
gpt
No. I have begun to like my comfort too well, and now Louise laughed outright.
human
A mark of oncoming age, perhaps.
gpt
You are a most unpleasant young woman, Louise.
human
I am determined to remain here, she repeated,
gpt
But in this common house! With that awful looking old sailor! And the way he talks! The rough adventures he has experienced--and the way he relates them!
human
Why, I think he is charming. And his stories are jolly fun. He tells the most thrilling and interesting things! I have before heard people tell about queer corners of the world--and been in some of them myself. Only the romance seems all squeezed out of such places nowadays. But when Cap'n Amazon was young!
gpt
You should hear him tell of having once been wrecked on an island in the South Seas where there were only women left of the tribe inhabiting it, the men all having been killed in battle by a neighboring tribe. The poor sailors did not know whether those copper-colored Eves would decide to kill and eat them, or merely marry them.
human
Louise! Aunt Euphemia rose and fairly glared at her niece.
gpt
You show distinctly that association with these horrid people down here has already contaminated your mind. You are positively vulgar!
human
through the living-room and store, as Betty Gallup said
gpt
Louise agreed about the