human
Do you-all know what I've gone an' done?
gpt
You do so many clever things, William, that we cannot possibly imagine what the newest is,
human
Well, sir, this is the cleverest yit. I've come off from Lucy Lumsden's an' clean forgot my hoss. It's a wonder I didn't forgit my head. Now, you might 'a' said, an' said truly, that I'd forgit a man, or a 'oman, but when William H. Sanders, Esquire, walks off in the broad light of day, an' forgits his hoss, an' that hoss the Rackin' Roan, you may know that his thinkin' machine has slipped a cog. Ef you'll excuse me, I'll go right arter that creetur. I'm mighty glad he can't talk--it's about the only thing he can't do--bekaze he'd gi' me a long an' warm piece of his mind.
gpt
I should be glad if you would stay to dinner, he said.
human
I have several things to show you--some interesting letters from your father, for instance.
gpt
But the ladies? suggested the Captain, with a comically doubtful lift of the eyebrows. He had no notion of bearding any of the Confederate lionesses in their dens.
human
You know how they regard us here.
gpt
Only my daughter Sarah is here. She knew your father well, and has a very lively remembrance of him. She was fifteen when you were three, and many a day she was your volunteer nurse.
human
I shall call you Garnett, to begin with, said Sarah Clopton, as she shook his hand,
gpt
You may be very sure, Miss Clopton, that the officer who did that piece of work had no relish for it. He simply obeyed orders. He had no discretion in the matter whatever.
human
Well, I shall be very glad to think that, Garnett, for your sake. But that fact doesn't restore our young men, she said with a sigh.
gpt
Oh, I wonder when we'll all be at peace and happy again?
human
In God's own time, and not before,
gpt
Well, we'll try an' help that time to come,