human
Their position is an anomalous one, he said;
gpt
I know that she has. But you see, Shotover, Lady Constance went on, returning to the name which that gentleman had rendered somewhat notorious in earlier years by a record in sport, in debts, in amours, and in irresistible sweetness of temper--
human
I want to be quite sure he is really good. Because the affair has not gone very far yet and it might be put a stop to--at least I hope and think it might--without making darling Kathleen too dreadfully unhappy. You do believe he really is good?
gpt
My dear Con, he answered,
human
Shotover, dear, she said,
gpt
Me? Bless you, no, never in life! he returned, smiling very reassuringly at her.
human
Don't worry yourself under that head. I quarrel with nobody and nothing, not even the consequences of my past iniquities. It is a very just world, take it all round, and has been kinder to me than I deserve.
gpt
Oh! but you do nothing, you--you are what--you won't think me rude, Shotover?--what the boys call 'very decent' now.
human
As decent as I know how, you dear soul, he said, taking her hand in his.
gpt
But that makes no difference to one's knowledge of one's own ways, in the past, or of the ways of other men.
human
But Alaric Barking?
gpt
Neither better nor worse than the rest.