human
Coming to think, he said,
gpt
He may be quite content you should knaw. That's meat an' drink enough for him, to think of you gwaine in fear day an' night.
human
Ess, but that's not my way. I ban't wan to wait an enemy's pleasure.
gpt
You won't go to him, Will?
human
Go to un? Ess fay--'fore the day's done, tu.
gpt
That's awnly to hasten the end.
human
The sooner the better.
gpt
A tremendous thing to tumble up on the surface arter all these years; an' a tremendous time for it to come. 'T was a crime 'gainst the Queen for my awn gude ends. I had to choose 'tween her an' you; I'd do the same to-morrow. The fault weern't theer. It lay in not gwaine back.
human
You couldn't; your arm was broke.
gpt
I ought to have gone back arter 't was well. Then time had passed, an' uncle's money corned, an' they never found me. But theer it lies ahead now, sure enough.
human
Perhaps for sheer shame he'll bide quiet 'bout it. A man caan't hate another man for ever.
gpt
I thought not, same as you, but Grimbal shaws we 'm wrong.
human
Let us go, then; let us do what you thought to do 'fore faither comed forward so kind. Let us go away to furrin paarts, even now.
gpt
I doubt if he'd let me go. 'T is mouse an' cat for the minute. Leastways so he's thought since he talked to 'e. But he'll knaw differ'nt 'fore he lies in his bed to-night. Must be cut an' dried an' settled.
human
Be slow to act, Will, an'--
gpt
Theer! theer! he said,
human
You'll be patient, Will? 'T isn't like other times when you was right an' him wrong. He's got the whip-hand of 'e, so you mustn't dictate.
gpt
Not me. I can be reasonable an' just as any man. I never hid from myself I was doin' wrong at the time. But, when all's said, this auld history's got two sides to it--'specially if you remember that 't was through John Grimbal's awn act I had to do wan wrong thing to save you doin' a worse wan. He'll have to be reasonable likewise. 'T is man to man.