human
Look here, Molly, suppose we don't hurry on, the way we've been planning to do? Last year we had that wonderful chain of feudal châteaux in Touraine, to show us what kingly and noble life was in dim old days. Now, all along the Seine and near it, we shall have some splendid churches instead of castles. We can hold a revel, almost an orgie, of magnificent ecclesiastical architecture if we like to spend the time. I've got Ferguson's book and Parker's, anyhow, and why shouldn't we run off the beaten track----
gpt
No, dearest, said his wife gently, but firmly, and I could have hugged her. My bump of reverence for the Gothic in all its developments is creditably large, but in my present
human
as Molly would say, a long procession of cold, majestic cathedrals would have reduced me to a limp pulp.
gpt
No, Molly went on,
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I can't help thinking that the churches would be a sort of anticlimax after our beloved, warm-blooded châteaux. It would be like being taken to see your great-grandmother's grave when you'd been promised a matinée. You know we engaged to get Lord Lane into his lonely fastnesses as soon as possible----
gpt
I don't believe Monty's in any hurry for them, said Jack, crestfallen.
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You ask him if----
gpt
He'd be too polite to be truthful. No, I'm sure that edelweiss will do him more good than rose windows, and mountain air than incense.
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Lightning Conductor's un-goggled face. It wore a puzzled expression at first, which suddenly brightened into comprehension.
gpt
Do they repent having brought me along, and want to get rid of me?