human
What, then, would it seem like to me?
gpt
But consider, my dear, again urged Miss Brancker,
human
If I ever get married it will be to someone who knows my history, or rather, as much of it as any of us knows, and if he would demean himself so far as to accept a farthing of that money--well, if he were to do so I should never care for him again.
gpt
It seems such a pity, such a very great pity, murmured Miss Brancker.
human
John and I have been congratulating ourselves all these years on the nice little nest-egg you would have when you came of age; and now, to think----!
gpt
Dear Aunt Charlotte, cannot you see, cannot you understand, how entirely out of the question it is that I should touch this money?
human
It is equally out of the question that John or I should touch it.
gpt
In that case, when Mr. Hodgson calls next at the Cottage I will bid him take back his money, and tell him that we will have none of it, and that if he never troubles himself to visit us again none of us will regret his absence. We don't want his money, and we don't want to know his secret. My relatives chose to disown me when I was a helpless child; now that I am grown up, I disown them!