human
If you buy me any sweets now I'll throw them away, she said.
gpt
Well, he's a good-looking man.
human
Oh, said Ingleby.
gpt
He's good-looking! Can't you get beyond that, Hetty?
human
Well, why shouldn't he be? It's a pleasure to see a man of that kind. There are so few of them. Still, I'll try to go a little further. Of course, he's clever. At least, everybody says so, but there's something wanting. I think he's weak.
gpt
Weak! said Ingleby indignantly.
human
You're wide of the mark this time, Hetty. I've read every line he has had printed, and any one could feel the uncompromising strength in it. They've put him in prison and tried to buy him, but nothing could keep a man of that kind from delivering his message.
gpt
If I were a little cleverer and richer I think that I could. That is, of course, if I wanted to,
human
I hope she isn't right, but she now and then blunders upon a truth that is hidden from our wisdom. Delilah is, after all, a type, you see, and one can't help a fancy that she has figured even more often than is recorded in history. Go on, Hetty.
gpt
I never could remember very much history; but that man's vain, vainer than most of you, she said.
human
A girl above him who pretended to believe in him could twist him round her finger.
gpt
Above him?
human
Yes. You know what everybody means by that, and it's generally a girl of that kind that men with your notions fall in love with. It's because you want so much more than is good for you that you have such notions.
gpt
Considering that she is a girl and by no means clever, Hetty's reflections occasionally, at least, display an astonishing comprehension, said Leger.
human
I really don't mind admitting it, though I am her brother.