human
I want your advice, Henry, on a little matter.
gpt
I shall be most happy to give it,
human
Well, then, do you not think the most prudent thing we could do for Mabel would be to get her a nice place as a governess?
gpt
Really, replied he, shrugging his shoulders,
human
But Henry, continued Mrs. Villars,
gpt
It shall not be, said Mr. Villars, laying down his paper,
human
Yes, but Henry, she said, still speaking to him,
gpt
And see, she continued,
human
No, no, said Mr. Villars, speaking entirely to his wife,
gpt
I have studied the history of the human mind too deeply, to be mistaken in myself, and I am convinced that, e'er this, mine would have sunk into that ruin which has wrecked many a better and wiser man than myself. There was inertness in my ideas, sameness in my thoughts, a sense of causeless misery and perpetual fear; all fatal signs of that derangement, which the worst and the best shrink from with terror, as something too dreadfully vague for contemplation. What I might have been now, had I not received, as it were, a fresh impetus from that angelic girl, I tremble to think; for what I am, I feel grateful to her as the second cause.