human
I know; being my peculiar weakness instead of your own, it's tommy-rot to you, Brouillard rejoined good-naturedly.
gpt
As I said a few minutes ago, I am only burbling to hear the sound of my own voice. But the bottoming fact remains. You give a screw twist to a child's mind, and if the mind of the man doesn't exhibit the same helical curve----
human
Suppose you climb down out of the high-browed altitudes and give it a plain, every-day name?
gpt
It's casting pearls before swine, but you're a pretty good sort of swine, Grizzy. If you'll promise to keep your feet out of the trough, I'll tell you. Away back in the porringer period, in which we are all like the pin-feathered dicky-birds, open-mouthed for anything anybody may drop into us, some one fed me with the number seven.
human
Succulent morsel! chuckled Grislow.
gpt
Did it agree with you?