human
There it is. I was a gay young lad in those days, and could go and come with the best. Read it, sir, read it; and if Maria says anything against it, tell her it was written long before she was born and when I was as pert as she is now, and a good deal more observing.
gpt
Well! I declare! she exclaimed;
human
And I, for one, am, was my hasty reply.
gpt
If the writing is at all legible, I am anxious to read it. You won't object, will you?
human
Oh, no, was her good-humored rejoinder.
gpt
I won't object; I only hate to have father's mind roused on this subject, because he is sure to be sick after it. But now that you have the story, read it; whether you will think as he did, on a certain point, is another question. I don't; but then father always said I would never believe ill of anybody.