human
This seems very nice, said the young host,
gpt
I’m afraid all this luxury would be out of place in ’Caledonia, stern and wild,’ the old man said.
human
No, no; these things are for the gay south. When Maisrie and I seek out the misty solitudes of the north, and the graves of Renwick and Cargill, it will be on foot; and if we bring away with us some little trifle to remind us of Logan’s streams and Ettrick’s shaws, it will be a simple thing—a bluebell or a bit of yellow broom. I have been thinking that perhaps this autumn we might begin—
gpt
Oh, no, grandfather, Maisrie interposed at once.
human
That is impossible. You know you have the American volume to do first. What a pity it would be, she went on, with an insidious and persuasive gentleness which the young man had seen her adopt before in humouring her grandfather,
gpt
Very well, very well, the old man said, curtly.
human
But we need not talk business at such a time as this.