human
I've been standing here almost five minutes, doing nothing--I don't know why, he said.
gpt
One does not, as a rule, get rich that way in this country.
human
You have just finished a remarkably good breakfast, for one thing, he said.
gpt
Still, haven't you made an admission? You always knew why you did everything in England.
human
Well, he said,
gpt
I'm seldom quite so sure now. Perhaps, it's because I'm older--or it may be the fault of the country. Floods and frosts, slides of gravel, and blue-grit boulders are apt to upset the results one feels reasonably certain of here. That recalls the fact that I broke out a quantity of promising-looking dirt the last time I went down this shaft, and didn't try the colour.
human
You have sunk several shafts now, and you're evidently improving, said Sewell.
gpt
The original one wasn't sunk or driven. It was scratched out, anyhow.
human
Three or four, and I've made some two hundred dollars out of the lot of them. In fact, I've been spending my labour profitlessly ever since I came into the country. That is, at least, so far as one can see.
gpt
There's a good deal in the reservation. The whole country's full of just such holes from Caribou to Kootenay. A few men took gold out of them. The rest put something in.
human
Buried hopes,
gpt
Probably, answered Sewell.
human
Now and then buried men. Still, the ranches and the orchards came up after them. It was presumably good for somebody, although a little rough on the prospectors in question.
gpt
I wonder if any one could grow plums and apples on Captain Esmond. In the language of the country it's about the only use it could have for him. Well, I've smoked my pipe out. Are we going to stay here and maunder any longer, Ingleby?
human
I'm going down the mine; though, as it doesn't belong to me now, I don't know why. Still, it's close on bottom, and I'd like to try the colour of the dirt I broke out on Saturday.