human
It is a most onfortunate time, Gilead said sympathetically;
gpt
Blow after blow, Mr. Beck, Agatha sobbed.
human
Stroke upon stroke.
gpt
That is so, madam. They've got the knife well in, this time, and when they give it a twist we're bound to cry out. You've thought me selfish, I know, not to inquire before.
human
No, Mr. Beck; no. It is only too kind of you to think of us in your overwhelming disaster. I have never spent so wretched a week. Poor Lawrence has literally not a penny left, except what he gets from the sale of his horses, pictures and things. Captain Ladds is the same; Phillis has no longer a farthing; and now, Oh dear, Oh dear. I am going to lose her altogether!
gpt
But when she marries Mr. Dunquerque you will see her often.
human
No, no. Haven't they told you? Jack has got almost nothing--only ten thousand pounds altogether; and they have made up their minds to emigrate. They are going to Virginia, where Jack will buy a small estate.
gpt
Is that so?
human
Lawrence says that he and Captain Ladds will go away together somewhere; perhaps back to Empire City.
gpt
And you will be left alone--you, Mrs. L'Estrange--all alone in this country, and ruined. It mustn't be. He straightened himself up, and looked round the room.
human
It must not be, Mrs. L'Estrange. You know me partly--that is you know the manner of man I wish to seem and try to be; you know what I have been. You do not know, because you cannot guess, the things which you have put into my head.
gpt
You and I together, Mrs. L'Estrange, are gone to wreck in this almighty hurricane. I've got one or two thousand dollars left; perhaps you will have as much, perhaps _not_. Mrs. L'Estrange, you will think it presumptuous in a rough American--not an American gentleman by birth and raising--to offer you such protection and care as he can give to the best of women? We, too, will go to Virginia with Mr. Dunquerque and his wife; we will settle near them, and watch their happiness. The Virginians are a kindly folk, and love the English people, especially if they are of gentle birth. Say, Mrs. L'Estrange.
human
O Mr. Beck! I am forty years of age!
gpt
And I am five and forty.
human
And you are going to Virginia, Mr. Dunquerque? said Gilead.
gpt
I am thinking of going, too, if I can persuade this lady to go with me.
human
O Agatha! come with us!
gpt
Come with me,