human
I am almost sorry,
gpt
Sorry for what?
human
For the Mavicks. I don't mean for Mrs. Mavick--I hear she is a worldly and revengeful woman--but for the girl. It must be dreadful to turn her out of all the surroundings of her happy life. And I hear she is as good as she is lovely. Think what it would be for our own girls.
gpt
But it can't be helped, said Ault, persuasively.
human
The house had to be sold, and it makes no difference who has it, so far as the girl is concerned.
gpt
And don't you fear a little for our own girls, launching out that way?
human
You are afraid they will get lost in that big house? And Mr. Ault laughed.
gpt
It isn't a bit too big or too good for them. At any rate, my dear, in they go, and you must get ready to move. The house will be empty in a week.
human
Murad, and Mrs. Ault spoke as if she were not thinking of the change for herself,
gpt
What is that?
human
Go to Mr. Mavick, or to Mrs. Mavick, or the assignees or whoever, and have the daughter--yes, and her mother--free to take away anything they want, anything dear to them by long association. Will you?
gpt
I don't see how. Mavick wouldn't do it for us, and I guess he is too proud to accept anything from me. I don't owe him anything. And then the property is in the assignment. Whatever is there I bought with the house.
human
I should be so much happier if you could do something about it.
gpt
Well, it don't matter much. I guess the assignees can make Mrs. Mavick believe easy enough that certain things belong to her. But I would not do it for any other living being but you.
human
By-the-way, he added,
gpt
I should have dreaded that more than the other.
human
So I thought. And I have another plan. It's long been in my mind, and we will carry it out next summer. There is a little plateau on the side of the East Mountain in Rivervale, where there used to stand a shack of a cabin, with a wild sort of garden-patch about it, a tumble-down root fence, all in the midst of brush and briers. Lord, what a habitation it was! But such a view--rivers, mountains, meadows, and orchards in the distance! That is where I lived with my mother. What a life! I hated everything, everybody but her.