human
Poor and content is rich and rich enough, but poor and genteel is--pardon slang--most tough!
gpt
If you could be but one, which would you rather be, poor or genteel, Rob?
human
I don't know, Mardy; I'm not sure I could tell them apart. I'm like the ladies in Cranford, and have always known them together, but vulgarity would have its consolations. We shall be vulgarly rich when the bricquette machine is in the market,
gpt
And in the meantime?
human
Ah, in the meantime!