human
The information, however, I feel concerns you, my dear sir, as nearly, in a manner, as it does your uncle; in fact, your youth taken into account, more momentously than it can so old a gentleman. I would, therefore, merely venture to solicit one condition, and that is, that you will be so good as not to mention me to your uncle as having conveyed this information to you, as he might himself have wished to be the first person to open it, and my having done so might possibly induce in his mind an unpleasant feeling.
gpt
I shan't see my uncle before the fifteenth,
human
A long wait, Mr. Verney, for such intelligence as it falls to my lot to communicate, which, in short, I shall be most _happy_ to lay before you, provided you will be so good as to say you desire it on the condition I feel it due to all parties to suggest.
gpt
You mean that my uncle need not be told anything about this interview. I don't see that he _need_, if it concerns _me_. What concerns _him_, I suppose you will tell him, Mr. Larkin.
human
Quite so; that's quite my meaning; merely to avoid unpleasant feeling. I am most anxious to acquaint you--but you understand the delicacy of my position with your uncle--and that premised, I have now to inform you --here he dropped his voice, and raised his hand a little, like a good man impressing a sublime religious fact--