human
How strange it all seems, Charlie, she said dreamily.
gpt
I shall miss you so much, I do hope she is amiable and lovable, you and she must come to me until you get settled; poor fellow, you look stunned.
human
I am paralyzed! it at last is so sudden, but why do you smile?
gpt
At a remark you made at the Smyth's, or I rather think it was when escorting me home, that 'you deserved a good wife, for you had never sinned, never told a lie.' So let us hope in your case virtue will have a reward.
human
See! I must go, your guests are arriving; how I wish you had no one this evening, and I might dine with you alone.
gpt
My wish too, on this your last visit, unfettered.
human
That means you cannot bolster me up in this case, as you have more than once heretofore; that I am in for it,
gpt
Yes, you are regularly hemmed in, and as I have been before now, so are you at present the mere foot-ball of circumstances, but 'out of every evil comes some good,' they say, and as your father says, she added with forced gaiety, for she is sad at the thought of snapping of old ties.
human
You will be the better of a warm heart beside your own in our winter climate; and above all, remember the good omen of this maple leaf; here, take it with you,
gpt
Good bye, Elaine, if it must be so; pray that I may come out of it all right, for I feel horribly depressed; and only you say I must go, would, I believe, show the white feather; I wish I might kiss you good-bye; there is that fellow, Cobbe, coming in, remember, that 'nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities.' God bless you; farewell.