human
Egoism is merely another name for the expression of a vital need,
gpt
You may put it in that way if you please, she returned gravely.
human
What is your need?
gpt
Money--a lot of it.
human
How singular! she laughed.
gpt
I need money, too--a lot of it.
human
You?
gpt
Yes, I.
human
What would you do with it? Buy corner lots in Niqoyastcàdjeburg?
gpt
No, indeed; I'd buy a farm in the Blue-grass--two of them, maybe.
human
What an ambition for a girl! Have you ever been in the Blue-grass country?
gpt
That was meant to humiliate me, and I sha'n't forget it. You know well enough that I have never been east of the Mississippi.
human
I didn't know it. You never tell me anything about yourself.
gpt
Persons with well-developed egos don't care to listen to folk-stories, she rejoined, evading the tentative invitation openly.
human
But tell me, what would you do with your pot of rainbow gold--if you should find it?
gpt
What would I do? A number of things. But first of all, I think, I'd buy the privilege of telling some woman that I love her.
human
As if you could! she said, with a lip curl that set his blood afire--
gpt
Oh, I didn't mean it quite that way, he hastened to explain.
human
I said: 'Buy the privilege.' If you knew the conditions you would understand me when I say that the money must come first.