human
Nigh on twenty year, mum, come Michaelmas, replied Dodge.
gpt
I've lain my couple o' hundred under the sod, easy; and a fine lot o' corpses they was too, take 'em one with another.
human
This is a very healthy neighbourhood, I suppose,
gpt
Lord bless you, as healthy as any place in the kingdom. There wasn't one in ten as was ill when he died, as one may say.
human
But that scarcely seems an unmixed blessing, commented the lady musingly,
gpt
Most was chills, took sudden, Dodge explained;
human
Was this one a chill?
gpt
Wot, this here? Lord bless you, no, mum. This here's our schoolmarm. Didn't you never hear tell about _her_?
human
Why everybody's been a talkin' about it. Over varty, she war, and ought to 'a knowed better.
gpt
But, with advancing years, it is rare that people _do_ get to know better--about dying,
human
I means about her conduc', Dodge explained;
gpt
That seems to me a trifle dull, but scarcely scandalous,
human
It strikes me as a most blameless career, said his companion.
gpt
Perhaps, as you say, considering her years, she ought to have known better, but----
human
She sort o' belongs to the place, as one may say, Dodge proceeded, evidently quite unaware that he had omitted to give the clue to the situation.
gpt
She's lived here all her life.
human
Then much may be forgiven her,
gpt
And everybody respected of her, and the parson he thought a deal o' her, he did, and used to hold her up as a sample to the other young women, and nobody dreamt as she'd go and bring this here scandal on the place; nobody knows who the man was, but it _is_ said as there's someone _not_ twenty miles from here as knows more about it nor he didn't ought to,