human
I am not your lordship's daughter...
gpt
That I know of!
human
I speak like a fool, said I,
gpt
So-ho, Mr. David, says he,
human
I thought that you and I were in a bargain?
gpt
My lord, I said,
human
You put the cart before the horse, I think, says he.
gpt
That which I had given was a portion of my liking, which your thankless nature does not seem to have remarked. But for my patronage, it is not given, nor (to be exact) is it yet offered. He paused a bit.
human
And I warn you, you do not know yourself, he added.
gpt
Youth is a hasty season; you will think better of all this before a year.
human
Well, and I would like to be that kind of youth! I cried.
gpt
I have seen too much of the other party, in these young advocates that fawn upon your lordship and are even at the pains to fawn on me. And I have seen it in the old ones also. They are all for by-ends, the whole clan of them! It's this that makes me seem to misdoubt your lordship's liking. Why would I think that you would like me? But ye told me yourself ye had an interest!
human
My lord, I ask your pardon, I resumed.
gpt
I have nothing in my chafts but a rough country tongue. I think it would be only decent-like if I would go to see my friend in her captivity; but I'm owing you my life, I'll never forget that; and-if it's for your lordship's good, here I'll stay. That's barely gratitude.
human
This might have been reached in fewer words, says Prestongrange, grimly.
gpt
It is easy, and it is at times gracious, to say a plain Scots 'ay'.
human
Ah, but, my lord, I think ye take me not yet entirely! cried I.
gpt
For _your_ sake, for my life-safe, and the kindness that ye say ye bear to me--for these, I'll consent; but not for any good that might be coming to myself. If I stand aside when this young maid is in her trial, it's a thing I will be noways advantaged by; I will lose by it, I will never gain. I would rather make a shipwreck wholly than to build on that foundation.
human
You mind me of the man with the long nose, said he:
gpt
says he, visibly swithering among some huge rolls of manuscripts,
human
Perhaps not just entirely in the same direction though, my lord!
gpt
And you shall have the last word, too!