human
Cruel Miss, said Mr. Guppy,
gpt
I should be pained, Mr. Guppy, said I, rising and putting my hand upon the bell-rope,
human
I think I added, without very well knowing what I said,
gpt
Half a minute, miss! cried Mr. Guppy, checking me as I was about to ring.
human
This has been without prejudice?
gpt
I will never mention it, said I,
human
A quarter of a minute, miss! In case you should think better--at any time, however distant, _that's_ no consequence, for my feelings can never alter--of any thing I have said, particularly what might I not do--Mr. William Guppy, eighty-seven, Penton Place, or, if removed, or dead (of blighted hopes or any thing of that sort), care of Mrs. Guppy, three hundred and two, Old Street Road, will be sufficient.