human
Please, Mother, I have had an invitation to spend a week with a school-fellow after Christmas.
gpt
Oh, and who is he?
human
A chap named Gould; they are awfully rich people--just the sort I ought to know, you know. They live in Suffolk at a place called Nugget Towers.
gpt
And what sort of boy is he? Because, of course, Vincent, we must ask him here in the summer in return.
human
Well, he is always very civil to me, and I don't know any harm of him; but he is not good at games and that, and not much fun to talk to--so I have never been quite so thick with him as he wished. That makes it all the more civil of him. He must have talked about me at home, for his mother sent the invitation.
gpt
Well, Vincent, I am glad you spoke of it at once, for we must make haste to look over your linen, which generally comes home in a terrible state. You had better go to-day to the tailor and get measured for your dress clothes; but you were to have had them for Christmas any way, so that will be nothing extra.
human
No, Mother, he said,
gpt
A gun, Vincent! Will not the one you have already do?
human
Oh, no, Mother--it is so old and out of date, I should be laughed at. I might just as well take an arquebus or a crossbow.
gpt
Is not a gun a very expensive thing?
human
Why, you may make it so, of course; but I don't want that. I have been studying the _Field_, and I can get a good central-fire breech-loader for ｣10.
gpt
Ten pounds is a good deal, said Mrs Crawley thoughtfully;
human
Oh, of course, Mother, said Crawley, going round and kissing her;