human
Still, said the bachelor,
gpt
I knew it!
human
Thinks it's for intellectual profit and pleasure,
gpt
No, he just doesn't see the use or fun of it. And yet, really, that's his only deficiency. True, he listens better than he talks--overdoes it; but when a chap has youth, intelligence, native refinement, integrity, and good looks, as far above the mean level as many of our society fellows are below it, it seems to me he ought to be
human
Utilized,
gpt
Yes, said the bachelor, and mused a moment.
human
He's a talented fellow. It's only a few months ago that he really began life. Now he's outgrown my service.
gpt
Left the nest,
human
Yes, indeed. He has invented
gpt
Oh, dear!
human
Ah! come, now; show your usual kindness; he has, really, made a simple, modest agricultural machine that--meets a want long felt. Oh! you may laugh; but he laughs last. He has not only a patent for it, but a good sale also, and is looking around for other worlds to conquer.
gpt
And yet spurns society? Ours!
human
No, simply develops no affinity for it; would like to, if only to please me; but can't. Doesn't even make intimate companions among men; simply clings to his fond, lone father, and the lone father to him, closer than any pair of twin orphan girls that ever you saw. I don't believe any thing in life could divide them.
gpt
Ah, don't you trust him! Man proposes, Cupid disposes. A girl will stick to her mother; but a man? Why, the least thing--a pair of blue eyes, a yellow curl
human
A pair of blue eyes have shot him through and through, and a yellow curl is wound all round him from head to heel, and yet he sticks to his father.
gpt
He can't live, said the lady. Marguerite's hand pressed her arm, and they rose. As the bachelor drew the light curtain of a long window aside, that they might pass in, the light fell upon Marguerite's face. It was entirely new to him. It seemed calm. Yet instantly the question smote him,
human
What have I done? what have I said?