human
What are you doing here?
gpt
Trying to learn myself to read and write,
human
And how do you get on?
gpt
Slow. Bad, returned the old man, impatiently.
human
It's hard at my time of life.
gpt
It would be easier to be taught by some one,
human
Ay, but they might teach me wrong! returned the old man, with a wonderfully suspicious flash of his eye.
gpt
I don't know what I may have lost, by not being learned afore. I wouldn't like to lose any thing by being learned wrong now.
human
Wrong? said my Guardian, with his good-humored smile.
gpt
Who do you suppose would teach you wrong?
human
I don't know, Mr. Jarndyce of Bleak House! replied the old man, turning up his spectacles on his forehead, and rubbing his hands.
gpt
I don't suppose as any body would--but I'd rather trust my own self than another!