human
Aha, good-day! Monsieur de Buxieres, said he in his rich, jovial voice,
gpt
You have a great deal of spare time on your hands, then?
human
Well, yes--yes--quite a good deal. The parish is not very extensive, as you have doubtless noticed; my parishioners are in the best possible health, thank God! and they live to be very old. I have barely two or three marriages in a year, and as many burials, so that, you see, one must fill up one's time somehow to escape the sin of idleness. Every man must have a hobby. Mine is ornithology; and yours, Monsieur de Buxieres?
gpt
Mine, for the moment, is ennui.