human
You too, Phil?
gpt
I don't understand you,
human
If you poach on my manor _here_, I shall kill you Phil; so _gare à vous_!
gpt
You are in an enigmatical mood to-day! I can't say I see much wit in your riddles,
human
Confound that fellow! I'd rather have had any other man in London for a rival! Twenty and more years ago how he cut me out with that handsome Virginie Peauderose, that we were both such mad boys after in Paris. However, it will be odd if _I_ can't win the day here. A Goodwood rejected--pooh! There isn't a woman in England that would do it!
gpt
thought Carruthers, as he got into his tilbury.
human
Philip, _you_'re not a fool, like the rest of them, I hope? You've not forsworn yourself surely? Pshaw!--nonsense!--impossible!
gpt
Certainly she _has_ something very charming about her. If I were a man I don't think I could resist her, thought Lady Marabout, as she sat in her box in the grand tier, tenth from the Queen's, moving her fan slowly, lifting her lorgnon now and then, listening vaguely to the music of the second act of the
human
Barbiere,
gpt
The women are eternally asking me who she is, I don't care a hang _who_, but she's the prettiest thing in London, said Fulke Nugent, which was the warmest praise that any living man about town remembered to have heard fall from his lips, which limited themselves religiously to one legitimate laudation, which is a superlative nowadays, though Mr. Lindley Murray, if alive, wouldn't, perhaps, receive or recognize it as such:
human
Not bad-looking.
gpt
It isn't _who_ a woman is, it's _what_ she is, that's the question, I take it,
human
By George! laughed Nugent to Carruthers,
gpt
Goodey must be serious, eh, Phil? He don't care a button for little Bibi; he don't care even for Zerlina. When the ballet begins, I verily believe he's thinking less of the women before him than of the woman who has left the house; and if a fellow can give more ominous signs of being 'serious,' as the women phrase it, I don't know 'em, do you?
human
I don't know much about that sort of thing at all!