human
This is a fine, bright, caller place to get shot in, says Alan, suddenly;
gpt
Alan! I cried,
human
And you would be the more mistaken, said he.
gpt
What makes the differ with me is just my great penetration and knowledge of affairs. But for auld, cauld, dour, deidly courage, I am not fit to hold a candle to yourself. Look at us two here upon the sands. Here am I, fair hotching to be off; here's you (for all that I ken) in two minds of it whether you'll no stop. Do you think that I could do that, or would? No me! Firstly, because I havenae got the courage and wouldnae daur; and secondly, because I am a man of so much penetration and would see ye damned first.
human
It's there ye're coming, is it? I cried.
gpt
Ah, man Alan, you can wile your old wives, but you never can wile me.
human
I have a tryst to keep, I continued.
gpt
I am trysted with your cousin Charlie; I have passed my word.
human
Braw trysts that you'll can keep, said Alan.
gpt
Ye'll just mistryst aince and for a' with the gentry in the bents. And what for? he went on with an extreme threatening gravity.
human
Just tell me that, my mannie! Are ye to be speerited away like Lady Grange? Are they to drive a dirk in your inside and bury ye in the bents? Or is it to be the other way, and are they to bring ye in with James? Are they folk to be trustit? Would ye stick your head in the mouth of Sim Fraser and the ither Whigs?
gpt
Alan, cried I,
human
Aweel, aweel,