human
It is very good of you to drop in in this way, Mr. Burnett, she said, as she gave him her hand.
gpt
It is very quiet down here.
human
It is to me the pleasantest part of the city.
gpt
You think so now. I thought so once, and there was a note of sadness in her voice.
human
But it isn't New York. It is a place for the people who are left.
gpt
But it has associations.
human
Yes, I know. We pretend that it is more aristocratic. That means the rents are lower. It is a place for youth to begin and for age to end. We seem to go round in a circle. Mr. Mavick began in the service of the government, now he has entered it again--ah, you did not know?--a place in the Custom-House. He says it is easier to collect other people's revenues than your own. Do you know, Mr. Burnett, I do not see much use in collecting revenues anyway--so far as New York is concerned the people get little good of them. Look out there at that cloud of dust in the street.