human
Well, Ingersoll, he said cheerily,
gpt
Rather tired,
human
I'm not surprised at that. You've had a pretty strenuous time.
gpt
Of course you, Lorry, have had the day of your life!
human
Y-yes. I wouldn't go through it again, though, for a small fortune; that is, with Yvonne on board. It was nip and tuck when we were jammed up against the reef.
gpt
It didn't take you long, Sir, for all that, to jump in after Mrs. Carmac,
human
Oh, is that the lady's name? What a weird specimen one of your sailormen must be! I asked him the name of the yacht's owner, and he didn't know it.
gpt
If it's the beauty I saw you talkin' to, the swine didn't know his own name when he kem aboard at Southampton, snorted Popple indignantly.
human
Sink me! I've never seen a man so loaded. Took me for his long-lost uncle. Me, mind you! If I hadn't been rather short-handed, I'd have run him ashore to find an uncle in a policeman.
gpt
He is sober enough now, laughed Tollemache.
human
I had some difficulty in persuading him to take a sip of brandy. He said he was a teetotaler.
gpt
He what? Which one?
human
That fellow there, leaning against the mast.
gpt
Of all the swabs! Look here, Sir, you come with me an' listen!
human
But I don't want to get the poor chap into a row.
gpt
There'll be no row. Just language! It'll be a treat.