human
Why, Mr. Toosypegs, I thought you had gone,
gpt
No, Miss Minnie, I ain't gone, I'm very much obliged to you, said Mr. Toosypegs, mournfully, seating himself.
human
I didn't like to go home; for when Miss Prisciller ain't well, she ain't always as pleasant as she might be, you know. She means real well, I'm sure; but then it's distressing sometimes to be _always_ scolded. I ain't got long to live, either, you know, said Mr. Toosypegs, with increasing mournfulness;
gpt
Why, Mr. Toosypegs, you ain't weeping about what that old woman told you--are you? said Minnie, looking up with her soft, tender, pitying eyes, as Mr. Toosypegs wiped his eyes and blew his nose, with a look of deepest affliction.
human
Why, it was only Ranty dressed up.
gpt
Ranty!
human
Yes: Ranty Lawless, you know, dressed up in old clothes. He is always doing things like that, to make people laugh. It wasn't any old woman at all--only him.