human
I'm not asking the bank to do this for me, she said, and she looked extra lovely (on purpose, of course).
gpt
I'm asking you----
human
And, of course, she said,
gpt
Perhaps, said Mr. Hemingway,
human
Of course, she said,
gpt
And yet, said the banker, twinkling,
human
Oh, she said,
gpt
They never do,
human
I wish to lend it in turn, she said,
gpt
she went on,
human
This person--
gpt
Oh, she said,
human
I couldn't bear to be teased. The person is a young gentleman. Any interest that I take in him is a business interest, pure and simple. I believe that, tided over his present difficulties, he will steady down and become a credit to his sex. Can I say more than that?
gpt
Men who are a credit to their sex, said Mr. Hemingway,
human
This one, said she,
gpt
Is he taking anything for it?
human
Buckets,
gpt
Was it cards?
human
Cards, and betting--and the hopeless optimism of youth,
gpt
And you wish to lend him five thousand dollars, and your interest in him is platonic?
human
Nothing so ardent, said she demurely.
gpt
I wish him to pay his debts, to give me his word that he will neither drink nor gamble until he has paid back the debt to me, and I shall suggest that he go out to one of those big Western States and become a man.
human
If anybody, said Mr. Hemingway with gallantry,
gpt
There is no sequence of generations, said Miss Tennant,
human
Are you going to put them in your safe--or return them to me?
gpt
I am thanking God fervently, ma'am, said he,
human
People, she said,
gpt
I feel about seven, said he,
human
And I, said she,
gpt
And, by the way, she said, when the details of the loan had been arranged and she had stuffed the five thousand dollars into the palm of a wash glove,
human
But that will give Aiken a black eye,
gpt
I'm afraid it can't be helped, Mr. Hemingway. Papa will ask point-blank why I never wear the pearls he gave me, and I shall have to anticipate.
human
How?
gpt
Oh, she said demurely,
human
Is the truth nothing to you?
gpt
In a business matter pure and simple, she said, after a moment's reflection,
human
Not being found out by one's parents is hardly a business matter,
gpt
Oh, said she with a shiver,
human
A hand of iron in a velvet glove,
gpt
Oh, no, she said,
human
You could make the burglar a clean-shaven man,
gpt
I will, she said.
human
I will make him look like anybody you say.
gpt
God forbid, said he.
human
I have no enemies. But, seriously, Miss Tennant, if you possibly can, will you do without a burglary, for the good name of Aiken?
gpt
I will do what I can, she said,
human
Well, said he,
gpt
I haven't, said Mr. Hemingway, twisting his mustache and looking roguish.
human
I've been discussing a little matter of business with Miss Tennant.
gpt
Well, it wasn't any of yours, Frank, at the time, and I'm dinned if I think it is now. But if you must know, she came in to complain of the milk that your dairy has been supplying lately. She said it was the kind of thing you'd expect in the North, but for a Southern gentleman to put water in anything----
human
You go to Augusta, said the director (it is several degrees hotter than Aiken).
gpt
Everybody knows that spoons stand up in the milk from my dairy, and as for the cream----