human
I don't mind temper, he said;
gpt
I used to have a temper myself; but I will _not_ have her vain! Better put some plaster on her arm. Elizabeth, you must not call Miss White by that ridiculous name.
human
She'll put ideas into Elizabeth's head, he told himself. In regard to the rings, he had not needed Elizabeth to instruct him. He had noticed them himself, and they had convinced him that this Mrs. Richie, who at first sight seemed a shy, sad woman with no nonsense about her, was really no exception to her sex.
gpt
Vain and lazy, like the rest of them, he said cynically. Having passed the age when he cared to sport with Amaryllis, he did not, he said, like women. When he was quite a young man, he had added,
human
Which remark, being repeated to Molly Wharton, had moved that young lady to retort that the reason that Sarah Maitland was the only woman he liked, was that Sarah Maitland was not a woman!
gpt
The only feminine thing about her is her petticoats, said Miss Wharton, daintily. For which _mot_, Robert Ferguson never forgave her. He certainly did not expect to like this new-comer in Mercer, this Mrs. Richie, but he had gone to see her. He had been obliged to, because she wished to rent a house he owned next door to the one in which he lived. So, being her landlord, he had to see her, if for nothing else, to discourage requests for inside repairs. He saw her, and promised to put up a little glass house at the end of the back parlor for a plant-room.
human
If she'd asked me for a 'conservatory,' he said to himself,
gpt
I wouldn't have considered it for a moment; but just a few sashes--I suppose I might as well give in on that? Besides, if she likes flowers, there must be something to her. All the same, he was conscious of having given in, and to a woman who wore rings; so he was quite gruff with Mrs. Richie's little boy, whom he found listening to an harangue from Elizabeth. The two children had scraped acquaintance through the iron fence that separated the piazzas of the two houses.
human
I, Elizabeth had announced,
gpt
she said, generously; and when the bite on her little thigh was displayed, she tried to think of other personal matters.
human
My mother's dead. And my father's dead.
gpt
So's mine, David matched her, proudly.
human
I'm an adopted child.
gpt
I have a pair of red shoes with white buttons,