human
He took that better than we expected, when something or other--an interview with the girl, I think, and some hot words with the successful lover following close upon it, threw him quite off his balance; and he got hold of an axe and fell upon his rival when there was no one by; and in the struggle that followed the man attacked, hit him an unlucky blow and killed him. And now the slayer in his turn is so upset that he is like to kill himself; and if he does, the girl will do as much, I fear. And all this we could no more help than the earthquake of the year before last.
gpt
It is very unhappy, said Dick;
human
As to her, said Walter,
gpt
O, you will find a certain kind of interest in it, said Dick.
human
And of course he _must_ soon look upon the affair from a reasonable point of view sooner or later.
gpt
Well, at any rate, quoth Walter,
human
Why, of course we must pass through it, said Dick, smiling,