human
The little red cow, Jo said to Donelle that spring,
gpt
But you are going to keep her, Mamsey, aren’t you? You just couldn’t send her away? Think of all her pretty calves, and she has been so faithful.
human
Of course, she blurted out,
gpt
I am going to keep her. I was only supposing.
human
Oh! Mamsey, you are such fun, and you never hide any more. You’re really getting to be handsome. Do you know Mr. Alton, Mr. Richard Alton, says he’d like to paint you as ’The Woman With the Hoe.’ He says you’d show the man—I don’t know who he means—what a hoe can do for the right sort.
gpt
Well, Mr. Richard Alton isn’t going to mess me up in his paints. It’s an awful waste of time for a full-grown man to make pictures all day. I wonder when he’s going home?
human
I wonder?
gpt
We’ll never have another boarder like him, child.
human
Oh! never, Mamsey.
gpt
I wish he’d stay through the summer. I’d like to fling him in the teeth of Marcel’s boarders.
human
Oh! Mamsey.
gpt
The Captain says he’s all ready for folks now; he’s opened sooner because Father Mantelle prophesies an early summer.