human
To think it had to turn out that way, when I was dying to see the part where you fall into the lake, lamented Migwan, when the cast had collected itself on the beach.
gpt
It wasn't at all the real thing.
human
Some of it was, said Sahwah.
gpt
The beginning was all right.
human
And the mule did go home 'riderless' eventually, said Katherine, rubbing her bumped elbow.
gpt
Didn't he make speed going around that narrow, slippery ledge, though? she went on.
human
I expected him to go overboard every minute. But he tore along as easily as if he were running on a velvetine road.
gpt
On a what?
human
She means a corduroy road, I guess,
gpt
Ho-ho-ho! chuckled Slim,
human
That's right, everybody insult a poor old woman what ain't never had a chance to get an eddication! sobbed Katherine, shedding mock tears into her handkerchief.
gpt
What's the difference? Doesn't velvetine sound just as good as corduroy? And, anyhow, it's better style this year than corduroy.
human
Hear the poor, ignorant, old lady talk about style, jeered Sahwah.
gpt
I didn't think you ever came out of your abstraction long enough to know what was in style.
human
Even in her absentmindedness she seems to have a preference for fine things, though, said Gladys, beginning to giggle reminiscently.
gpt
Do you remember the time she walked out of Osterland's with a thirty-dollar hat on her head?
human
You see, said Gladys,
gpt
Mercy! said Aunt Clara to Katherine,
human
Not she, said Gladys.
gpt
She walked right back inside, big as life, hunted around until she found her own hat, and handed the mink one to the saleswoman, who had just sent a store detective out after her. The detective escorted her to the door that time, but it didn't worry her in the least. She went right back into the store the next day and tried the same hat on again and couldn't imagine why the saleswoman left another customer and was so attentive to her. The simplicity of some people is perfectly touching.
human
I won't stay and be made fun of, said Katherine, and marched up the hill with an injured air, calling back over her shoulder,
gpt
Oh, I say, don't get mad, said Slim in alarm, whereat everybody laughed. He was the one for whom Katherine's words were intended, nobody else having
human
Honest, I forgot I promised not to tell about the binnacles,
gpt
Shucks! I always manage to get in bad with her. Always in bad,
human
We'll have to re-christen you 'In-Bad the Sailor!'
gpt
Really! said the Captain, making a grimace of comical surprise at her.
human
Who would have thought the child was so deucedly clevah, bah Jove!