human
Never mind, said I, rather soberly, after we had sopped up the inestimable elixir, as well as we could, with our handkerchiefs.
gpt
I shall die an eternity or two the sooner, and shall have to get my table new covered, that's all. I hope, Calbot, that the good which your visit here has done you, will be a small fraction as great as the loss it has inflicted on me. Well, and how has the MS. come out of the scrape? All washed out, I suppose.
human
Oh!
gpt
What?
human
It seems you had filled in the blanks before I came?
gpt
With the first four letters of the alphabet. Yes!
human
With the names in full!
gpt
What names?
human
Why, Drayton, the first thing I looked at was this record of 'ondyinge Hatred,' &c. It contains all the four names--yours as one of the witnesses of Armstrong's signature. They are written out in pale red ink, as plain as can be----