human
And why the chain? He followed this up by saying:
gpt
It is but a case of playing lion-tamer down there. Have one little gift all your own, know when to impose it, and you have the pleasure of feeling that your fingers move a great machine, the greatest in the world--yes the very greatest. There is Little Grapnel just vacant: the faithful Glynn is gone. Come: if you will, I'll send my secretary to-morrow morning-eh?
human
You are not afraid of the buffalo, sir?
gpt
My greatest need-- one to roar as gently as the sucking-dove.
human
But what if I, not knowing the rules of the game, should think myself on the corner of the veldt or in an Indian's tepee, and hit out?
gpt
You do not carry derringers?
human
No; but--
gpt
Well, well; that will come one day, perhaps! Lord Faramond paused, abstracted, then added:
human
But not through you. Good-bye, then, good-bye. Little Grapnel in ten days!