human
Devotion is so very fatiguing, said Kit, in a harassed voice, as she stepped on to the grass.
gpt
Alice and I feel as if we had been having the influenza--don't we, dear? And I've lost my cigarette-case. It is too tiresome, because I meant to pawn it. I am sure I left it in the punt.
human
Thank your dear husband you didn't step on it,
gpt
Oh, Jack, I wish you wouldn't be so thoughtful, she said.
human
Thoughtful people are such a nuisance. They always remind one of what one is doing one's best to forget, and put one's cherished things in safe places. Oh, I'm so glad I'm not a clergyman. I should have to go to church again this evening. What's that book, Mr. Alington? Oh, I see. Have you and Jack been singing hymns on the lawn? How dear of you! I didn't know you thought of going to church, or I would have waited for you. I understood you were going to talk business with Jack. There is business in the air. Just a trifle stuffy.
gpt
We have been having a long and interesting talk, he replied.
human
One can say more on Sunday morning than in the whole of the rest of the week put together.
gpt
Yes, that's so true, said Kit, walking on ahead with him, and smoking violently.
human
The man who preached knew it too. It was like a night journey, I slept so badly. And was your talk satisfactory?
gpt
To me, very, said Mr. Alington.
human
I am convinced it will also prove satisfactory to Lord Conybeare. He has kindly consented to become my chairman and a director of my new group of mines, the Carmel mines, as they will be called.
gpt
What a nice name! said Kit.
human
And shall we all make our fortunes?
gpt
I shall be very much surprised if we do not get a modest competence out of the Carmel mines,
human
Gee-gees or
gpt
Great Grundys one night at her house in Berkeley Street. The
human
Gee-gee party was an idea borrowed from Jack, and all who were weightiest in society came to it, a large number of them to dine, and the rest to the evening party. Just now her brother, Tom Abbotsworthy, was living with them, for his own house was being done up, and Alice had easily persuaded him to stay with them, instead of living with the Duke. Indeed to live with the Duke was nearly an impossibility; three women already had attempted to support the burden of being his Duchess, but they had all collapsed before long, leaving him in each case eminently consolable. He could hurry a person into the grave, so it was said, sooner than any man or woman in the kingdom. The last time Tom had seen him was about a week ago, at dinner somewhere, and the whole of his conversation had been to say loudly to him across the dinner-table at intervals of about two minutes,
gpt
Why don't you marry?
human
Gee-gee