human
Mavy, she cautioned,
gpt
I'm afraid you'll get yourself hurt some day by doing more than is wise or needful. Nobody could find fault with you for helping Langton, but you should have stopped at that. Insulting men like Nevis just because they dress well, or for other reasons, is apt to lead to trouble.
human
It was Langton's misfortune that he wouldn't fall into line, he said.
gpt
If he had, he wouldn't have been forced to borrow money from Nevis. For instance, what has the electrical tension in the atmosphere he used to fret about to do with one's harrowing, anyway, unless it brings down rain, and why must he cut his prairie hay two or three weeks after all his neighbors have theirs in?
human
He says he likes it thoroughly ripened, Thorne answered with a laugh.
gpt
Still, I can't see why a man should be hounded down because he won't do exactly what everybody else does. What do you think, Miss Leigh?
human
It's rather a pity, but I'm afraid men of that kind generally have to pay, replied Alison.
gpt
That is, unless they're very strong and fortunate, and then they lead. What was supposed to be a craze of theirs becomes a desirable custom, and the others humbly copy them.
human
And if the others won't?
gpt
Even then, it's perhaps just as well there are a few men with the courage of their convictions who will couch the lance in the face of any opposition that can be brought against them, and ride right home. There must be something in their fancies, and the stir they make clears the air. Stagnation's unwholesome.
human
You shouldn't encourage him. It's quite superfluous. He'd charge a locomotive any day with pleasure,
gpt
Well, laughed Thorne,