human
I allow she's mostly done, but I guess she's not dead,
gpt
My! but you made me turn right over, as the sayin' is. You should ha' bin more careful, an' me with my heart too, an' all. The doctor told me as I was never to have no shock to speak of. They might set up hem--hemoritch or suthin' o' the heart, what might bring on sing--sing--I know it was suthin' to do with singin', which means I'd never live to see another storm like we just had, not if it sure come on this minit----
human
I'm real sorry, ma'm, said Buck, smiling quietly at the old woman's volubility, but deliberately cutting it short.
gpt
I mean about the shock racket. Y' see she needs fixin' right, an' I guess it's up to you to git busy, while I go an' haul her trunks up from the creek.
human
What they doin' in the creek? she demanded with sudden heat.
gpt
Who put 'em ther'? Some scallawag, I'll gamble. An' you standin' by seein' it done, as you might say. I never did see sech a place, nor sech folk. To think o' that pore gal a-settin' watchin' her trunks bein' pushed into the creek by a lot o' loafin' bums o' miners, an' no one honest enough, nor man enough to raise a hand to--to----
human
With respec', ma'm, you're talkin' a heap o' foolishness, cried Buck impatiently, his anxiety for the girl overcoming his deference for the other's sex.
gpt
If you'll show me the lady's room I'll carry her right into it an' set her on her bed, an'----
human
Mercy alive, what's the world a-comin' to! cried the indignant farm-wife.
gpt
Me let the likes o' you into the gal's bedroom! You? Guess you need seein' to by the State, as the sayin' is. I never heard the like of it. Never. An' she jest a slip of a young gal, too, an' all.