human
For mercy's sake, my dear Charry, do think of _me_! If you tell Doctor Splayfoot he'll be certain to tell it all to Wynne Williams and Doctor Lyster, and Price Apjohn, and every creature in Cardyllian will know everything about it, and a great deal more, before two hours; and once for all, if that ridiculous story is set afloat, into the church door I'll never set my foot again.
gpt
How _can_ you be such a fool, Aggie! I'll only say it was at _our seat_--and no one can possibly tell which it was at--you or me; and I'll certainly tell Dr. Splayfoot that Mr. Sedley saw it.
human
And I'll tell the Doctor, said Sedley, who enjoyed the debate immensely,
gpt
I don't think, Thomas Sedley, you'd do anything so excessively wicked!
human
Try me,
gpt
Every _gentleman_ tells the truth,
human
Except where it makes mischief,
gpt
Well, I suppose I had better say nothing of _Christianity_. But what _you_ do is your own affair! _my_ duty I'll perform. I shall think it over; and I shan't be ruffled by any folly intended to annoy me. Miss Charity's thin brown cheeks had flushed to a sort of madder crimson. Excepting these flashes of irritability, I can't charge her with many human weaknesses.
human
I'll not say _who_ he looked at--I've promised that; but unless I change my present opinion, Dr. Splayfoot shall hear the whole thing to-morrow. I think in a clergyman any such conduct in church is _unpardonable_. The effect on other people is positively ruinous. _You_, for instance, would not have talked about such things in the light you do, if you had not been encouraged in it, by seeing a clergyman conducting himself so.
gpt
Mind, you've _promised_ poor little Agnes, you'll not bring her into the business, no matter what _I_ do,
human
I have, certainly.
gpt
Well, I'll stay in Cardyllian to-morrow, and I'll see Doctor Splayfoot. Sedley was buttoning his coat and pulling on his gloves, with a wicked smile on his good-humoured face.
human
And I'll tell him that you think the curate ogles you through a hole in the reading-desk. That _you_ like _him_, and _he's_ very much gone about _you_; and that you wish the affair brought to a point; and that you're going to appeal to him--Doctor Splayfoot--to use his authority either to affect _that_, or to stop the ogling. I will, upon my honour!
gpt
And I shall speak to papa to prevent it,
human
And that will bring about a duel, and he'll be shot in his Bath chair, and I shall be hanged --old Vane Etherage, with his spectacles on, was plodding away serenely at the little table by the fire, over his _Naval Chronicle_--
gpt
--he glanced toward the unconscious Admiral--
human
I'll see you both to-morrow, after I've spoken to the Rector.