human
Hope you slept well last night,
gpt
Very well, thank you,--that is, after I got to bed. But I sat up pretty late reading my favorite Scott. I am apt to forget how the hours pass when I have one of his books in my hand.
human
You couldn't find better reading, young man. Scott is _my_ favorite author. A great man. I have got his likeness in a gilt frame hanging up in the other room. I have read him all through three times.
gpt
What are your favorites among his writings, Deacon? I suppose you have your particular likings, as the rest of us have.
human
Well, he answered,
gpt
I can hardly tell you. I like pretty much everything Scott ever wrote. Sometimes I think it is one thing, and sometimes another. Great on Paul's Epistles,--don't you think so?
human
Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk,