human
Don't let your good feelings excite you,
gpt
No, no. I won't, he returned, looking out of the towel.
human
I won't. I have not been confused, have I?
gpt
Not at all. Perfectly clear.
human
Where did I leave off, Mr. Bintrey?
gpt
Well, you left off--but I wouldn't excite myself, if I was you, by taking it up again just yet.
human
I'll take care. I'll take care. The singing in my head came on at where, Mr. Bintrey?
gpt
At roast, and boiled, and beer, answered the lawyer,--
human
Ah! And one and all singing in the head together--
gpt
Do you know, I really _would not_ let my good feelings excite me, if I was you, hinted the lawyer again, anxiously.
human
Try some more pump.
gpt
No occasion, no occasion. All right, Mr. Bintrey. And one and all forming a kind of family! You see, Mr. Bintrey, I was not used in my childhood to that sort of individual existence which most individuals have led, more or less, in their childhood. After that time I became absorbed in my late dear mother. Having lost her, I find that I am more fit for being one of a body than one by myself one. To be that, and at the same time to do my duty to those dependent on me, and attach them to me, has a patriarchal and pleasant air about it. I don't know how it may appear to you, Mr Bintrey, but so it appears to me.
human
It is not I who am all-important in the case, but you, returned Bintrey.
gpt
Consequently, how it may appear to me is of very small importance.
human
It appears to me, said Mr. Wilding, in a glow,
gpt
Do you know, hinted the lawyer again,
human
I really would not ex--
gpt
I am not going to. Then there's Handel.
human
There's who?
gpt
Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Kent, Purcell, Doctor Arne, Greene, Mendelssohn. I know the choruses to those anthems by heart. Foundling Chapel Collection. Why shouldn't we learn them together?
human
Who learn them together?
gpt
Employer and employed.
human
Ay, ay, returned Bintrey, mollified; as if he had half expected the answer to be, Lawyer and client.
gpt
That's another thing.
human
Not another thing, Mr. Bintrey! The same thing. A part of the bond among us. We will form a Choir in some quiet church near the Corner here, and, having sung together of a Sunday with a relish, we will come home and take an early dinner together with a relish. The object that I have at heart now is, to get this system well in action without delay, so that my new partner may find it founded when he enters on his partnership.
gpt
I hope so.
human
I wish them all well out of it, returned Bintrey, with much heartiness.
gpt
Good-bye, sir.