human
Major Coulthurst is human, anyway, but the other fellow's insolence made me long to pull him off his horse, he said.
gpt
Is there, after all, any essential difference between an officer of the Northwest Police and a mineral claim prospector?
human
One can't help admitting that in some respects there seems to be a good deal, said Leger drily.
gpt
Still, I should scarcely fancy the Canadian ones are likely to be so unpleasantly sensible of it. The gentleman in question was apparently born in England.
human
Where else could you expect a man of his kind to come from? and Ingleby kicked a smouldering brand back into the fire,
gpt
I fancied we had left that languid superciliousness behind us. It's galling to run up against it again here.
human
My uncle's spirit in these stones! said Leger.
gpt
Still, aren't you getting a little too old now to run a tilt against the defects of the national character? One feels more sure of doing it effectively when he's younger.
human
I suppose nobody can help being an ass now and then, and, after all, the best protest is the sure and silent kick when people who treat you like one unnecessarily add to your burden. Anyway, that trooper's grin was soothing. It suggested that there was a good deal of human nature under his uniform.
gpt
I was looking at the officer man, and scarcely noticed him. It occurred to me that the attitude you complain of probably runs in the family.
human
I can't say I understand you.
gpt
Well, said Leger reflectively,
human
I can't help a fancy that we once met somebody very like him on another occasion when we both lost our temper.
gpt
At Willow Dene?
human
Exactly! said Leger.
gpt
You can think it over. I'll wash the plates at the creek and get some water.