human
Good-bye, papa's blessing,
gpt
Why, papa, I should think you were going away to stay a year!
human
Well, good-bye, honey, he said. Just as he was going out of the door he stopped, and said, as if it were a minor matter which he had nearly forgotten,
gpt
Oh, by-the-way, sweetheart, I want you, at exactly half-past nine, to go into the den and look in the third volume of the Dutch Republic, and see what you will find.
human
A present! said she.
gpt
I know it is a present, but what a funny place to put it in, papa, the third volume of the Dutch Republic.
human
At exactly half-past nine,