human
Of course there's a difference between me and you, he said. Mr. Longestaffe bowed his head graciously, as much as to say that there was of course a very wide difference.
gpt
In our affairs, continued Brehgert,
human
Of course he does, Mr. Brehgert. That's what made it so hard.
gpt
I can't even yet quite understand how it was with him, or why he took upon himself to spend such an enormous deal of money here in London. His business was quite irregular, but there was very much of it, and some of it immensely profitable. He took us in completely.
human
I suppose so.
gpt
It was old Mr. Todd that first took to him;--but I was deceived as much as Todd, and then I ventured on a speculation with him outside of our house. The long and the short of it is that I shall lose something about sixty thousand pounds.
human
That's a large sum of money.
gpt
Very large;--so large as to affect my daily mode of life. In my correspondence with your daughter, I considered it to be my duty to point out to her that it would be so. I do not know whether she told you.