human
She's too fine for me, you see, he went on.
gpt
Too sort of delicate.--I read somewhere that china vases and brass vases couldn't float down a stream together without the china ones getting smashed (though why vases would be floating down a stream anyway, _I_ don't know!). But I'm brass, you see, and she's china. I thought it might be all right after the twinnies came. I still think it might have been, if they--
human
Their hearts are wild As be the hearts of birds, till childer come.
gpt
I almost lost her, sir. Do you think I'd put her through a thing like that again? God!--her little frantic hands clutching at us! And her voice, hoarse as a fierce animal's--!