human
I will go on, she said to her father,
gpt
Edith, said the Captain, one day, speaking from his rugs on the bank upon the lawn,
human
I will not say it, Captain Clayton,
gpt
So you have gone back to the Captain,
human
I will go back further than that, if you continue to annoy me. It shall be nothing but plain 'sir,' as hard as you please. You might as well let go my hand; you know that I do not take it away violently, because of your wound.
gpt
I know--I know--I know that a girl's hand is the sweetest thing in all creation if she likes you, and leaves it with you willingly.
human
Of course, I don't want to hurt you,
gpt
And, therefore, it feels as though you loved me. Of course it does. Your hand says one thing and your voice another. Which way does your heart go?
human
Right against you, said Edith. But she could not help blushing at the lie as she told it.
gpt
My conscience is altogether against you, and I advise you to attend more to that than to anything else.
human
There has been a murder worse than any that have happened yet, just the other side of the lake,
gpt
Another murder?
human
Oh, miss, no other murder ever told of had any horror in it equal to this! I don't know how the governor will keep himself quiet there, with such an affair as this to be looked after. There are six of them down,--or at any rate five.
gpt
When a doubt creeps in, one can always disbelieve as much as one pleases.
human
You can hardly disbelieve this, sir, as I have just heard the story from Sergeant Malcolm. There were six in the house, and five have been carried out dead. One has been taken to Cong, and he is as good as dead. Their names are Kelly. An old man and an old woman, and another woman and three children. The old woman was very old, and the man appears to have been her son.
gpt
Have they got nobody?
human
It appears not, sir. But there is a rumour about the place that there were many of them in it.
gpt
Looking after one another, said Clayton,
human
It may be so. But there were many in it, sir. I can't tell much of the circumstances, except the fact that there are the five bodies lying dead.