human
My best respects to you, Mistress Grant,
gpt
The like to yourself, Mr. David, she replied, with a deep courtesy,
human
And I beg to remind you of an old musty saw, that meat and mass never hindered man. The mass I cannot afford you, for we are all good Protestants. But the meat I press on your attention. And I would not wonder but I could find something for your private ear that would be worth the stopping for.
gpt
Mistress Grant, said I,
human
I believe I am already your debtor for some merry words--and I think they were kind too--on a piece of unsigned paper.
gpt
Unsigned paper?
human
Or else I am the more deceived, I went on.
gpt
But to be sure, we shall have the time to speak of these, since your father is so good as to make me for a while your inmate; and the _gomeral_ begs you at this time only for the favour of his liberty.
human
You give yourself hard names,
gpt
Mr. Doig and I would be blythe to take harder at your clever pen,
human
Once more I have to admire the discretion of all men-folk, she replied.
gpt
But if you will not eat, off with you at once; you will be back the sooner, for you go on a fool's errand. Off with you, Mr. David,
human
He has lowpen on his bonny grey, He rade the richt gate and the ready; I trow he would neither stint nor stay, Far he was seeking his bonny leddy.