human
Are you a candidate? asked Grafton of Mr. Williams.
gpt
Because if so we shall have to be careful what we say. I may tell you at once that our sympathies are with young Denis Cooper.
human
I a candidate! exclaimed Mr. Williams with a hearty laugh--he laughed heartily at anything in which a humourous significance might be inferred, and at many things where it was not apparent,--
gpt
Oh, good gracious, no! Wouldn't leave Feltham for anything in the world. We've got everything exactly as we like it there, haven't we, dear?
human
Yes, said his wife.
gpt
The kennels couldn't be beaten and they've cost us a lot of money, which we should lose if we moved. And there's the carpentering shop too. Oh, no, we look on at it all and laugh about it, don't we, dear?
human
I don't know about young Denis, he said.
gpt
That would be rather a tall order, as things go now-a-days. There's one fellow, though, that I hope _won't_ get it. But perhaps I'd better not say who he is in this company.
human
Oh, we know who you mean, said Caroline.
gpt
We hope he won't get it either. But why shouldn't Denis?
human
I suppose because all the rest of us would kick up such a fuss, said Mr. Williams, laughing most heartily.
gpt
I shouldn't on my own account, but there are lots of older men who have worked hard all their lives who ought to be considered before a young one just beginning. There's nothing to do there either. A young fellow ought to have something to do.
human
Oh, I beg your pardon, said Ella.
gpt
Rhoda and Ethel find a great deal to do, and Denis is never idle. I can't take your view of it at all, and I hope my uncle won't.
human
We were wondering how much Mrs. Carruthers might have to do with it as we rode over, weren't we, dear?
gpt
We hope she is going to have a great deal to do with it, said Beatrix.
human
We are heart and soul for Denis.
gpt
Brill--our fellow--was saying that with that big house and good income there ought to be a sort of community there,
human
That's just what Father Brill would say, said Mrs. Williams.
gpt
Everybody likes Father Brill; but preserve us from having our nice Rectories and Vicarages filled with people of his sort. I don't mean his sort personally, but celibates stalking about in cassocks, and no women in the parsonages for poor people to come to. It wouldn't do at all.
human
I'm sure it wouldn't, said Worthing.
gpt
You can't change and muddle up English country life like that. What were all the parsons' houses built for? You've got them in every village in the land, so that there should be an educated man able to live like a gentleman; and now people like Brill want to put it all back again. It won't do.
human
You speak with considerable heat, James,
gpt
Well, I think it's a lot of tommy-rot, said Worthing,
human
And an old-fashioned agent is doing his duty,
gpt
You're a cheeky young baggage, he said,