human
And I think, said the artist, who had been watching, from the little distance at which they sat, the table of the revelers,
gpt
Oh, you never will understand us! said Mrs. Farquhar;
human
We do not begin to be spontaneous till after dinner,
gpt
And then it is all calculated. Think of Mr. Forbes counting the bottles! Such a dreadfully mercenary spirit! Oh, I have been North. Because you are not so open as we are, you set up for being more virtuous.
human
And you mean, said King,
gpt
I don't mean anything of the sort. I just mean that conventionality isn't virtue. You yourself confessed that you like the Southern openness right much, and you like to come here, and you like the Southern people as they are at home.
human
Well?
gpt
And now will you tell me, Mr. Prim, why it is that almost all Northern people who come South to live become more Southern than the Southerners themselves; and that almost all Southern people who go North to live remain just as Southern as ever?
human
No. Nor do I understand any more than Dr. Johnson did why the Scotch, who couldn't scratch a living at home, and came up to London, always kept on bragging about their native land and abused the metropolis.