human
Adèle, said Daphne suddenly,
gpt
Hurray,
human
Liverpool or Southampton?
gpt
She doesn't say. But I told her to come to Southampton.
human
I expect she's got to take what she can get; only, when you're making for Hampshire, it seems a pity to go round by the Mersey.
gpt
I like Adèle, said Berry.
human
She never seeks to withstand that feeling of respect which I inspire. When with me, she recognizes that she is in the presence of a holy sage, and, as it were, treading upon hallowed ground. Woman, he added, looking sorrowfully upon his wife,
gpt
I could wish that something of her piety were there to lessen your corruption. Poor vulgar shrew, I weep----
human
She says something about you, said Daphne, turning over a sheet.
gpt
Here you are. _Give Berry my love. If I'd been with you at Oxford, when he got busy, I should just have died. All the same, you must admit he's a scream. I'm longing to see Nobby. He sounds as if he were a dog of real character...._
human
Thank you, said her husband, with emotion.
gpt
Thank you very much. 'A scream,' I think you said. Yes. And Nobby, 'a dog of character.' I can't bear it.
human
So he is, said I.
gpt
Exceptional character.
human
I admit, said Berry,
gpt
All dogs are greedy, said Jill.
human
It's natural. And you'd be tired, if you ran about like him.
gpt
He's useful and ornamental and diverting, said I.
human
I don't know what more you want.
gpt
Useful? said Berry, with a yawn.
human
Useful? Oh, you mean scavenging? But then you discourage him so. Remember that rotten fish in Brook Street the other day? Well, he was making a nice clean job of that, he was, when you stopped him.
gpt
That was a work of supererogation. I maintain, however, that nobody can justly describe Nobby as a useless dog. For instance----