human
Yes, that's all right enough, said Stapleton, who had taken advantage of my reading to smoke furiously, to make up for lost time;
gpt
Here old Stapleton stopped, laid down his pipe, and rested his face in his hands. Mary burst into tears. After a few minutes he resumed:
human
When I came to, I found myself on board of the ship in the captain's cabin, with the captain and his wife watching over me--and then I came to understand that it was she who had sent for your mother, and that she was living on board, and that your mother had at first refused, because she knew that I did not like her to be on the river, but wishing to see a ship had consented. So it was not so bad a'ter all, only that a woman shouldn't act without her husband--but you see, Mary, all this would not have happened if it hadn't been that I overheard part of what was said; and you might now have had a mother, and I a wife to comfort us, if it had not been for my unfortunate _hearing_--so, as I said before, there's more harm than good that comes from these senses--at least so it has proved to me. And now you have heard my story, and how your mother died, Mary; so take care you don't fall into the same fault, and be too fond of being looked at, which it does somehow or another appear to me you have a bit of a hankering a'ter--but like mother, like child, they say, and that's _human natur'_.