human
I must go, she said to Mrs. Nairn.
gpt
I've already stayed longer than I intended. I'll let you have those patterns back in a day or two.
human
Mair patterns! Nairn exclaimed with dry amusement.
gpt
It's the second lot this week! Ye're surely industrious, Jessy. Women --he addressed Vane--
human
I don't think many of us are industrious in that way now. After all, isn't it a pity that so many of the beautiful old handicrafts are dying out? No loom, for instance, could turn out some of the things your wife makes. They're matchless.
gpt
She has an aumrie--ye can translate it bureaufull of them. It's no longer customary to scatter them over the house. If ye mean to copy the lot, ye have a task that will take ye most a lifetime.
human
There were no books and no many amusements when I was young. We sat through the long winter forenights, counting stitches, in the old gray house at Burnfoot, under the Scottish moors. That, my dear, was thirty years ago.
gpt
I'm thinking ye'll no see so much of Jessy for the next few weeks, Nairn remarked dryly.
human
Has she shown ye any of yon knickknacks when she has finished them?
gpt
Alic, she admonished,
human
Maybe. I'm no infallible, but the fault ye mention is no common in the land where we were born. I'm no denying that Jessy has enterprise, but how far it will carry her in this case is mair than I can tell.
gpt
What is amusing you, Alic?
human
It was just a bit idea no worth the mentioning. I think it would no count. He paused, and added with an air of reflection:
gpt
A young man's heart is whiles inconstant and susceptible.