human
What is the matter, doctor? I said.
gpt
You appear strangely down upon your luck all at once.
human
Hush--hush! Speak lower, sir, pray. The fact is, I have just heard that a fellow is lurking about here--You have not, I hope, asked for me of any one?
gpt
I have not; but what if I had?
human
Why, you see, sir, that suspicion--calumny, Shakspeare says, could not be escaped, even if one were pure as snow--and more especially, therefore, when one is not quite so--so--Ahem!--you understand?
gpt
Very well, indeed. You would say, that when one is _not_ actually immaculate--calumny, suspicion takes an earlier and firmer hold.
human
Just so; exactly--and, in fact--ha!--