human
So it's you, he querulously said, when he recognized me,
gpt
Now aren't you sorry you ever left Topham? If I had lost as much as you have by Seth Upham's going into his second childhood, I vow I'd jump overboard and be done with life. You're slow enough to look up your old friends, seems to me.
human
But, said I, impatiently,
gpt
I've been like to die of seasickness. I couldn't look you up then, and you never came near me.
human
Oh, that's all very well for you to say, but you know I couldn't come aft without a trouncing from that Neil Gleazen--I'm sure I'd like to see something awful happen to him to pay him for breaking up the store!--and you've had plenty of time since. If I didn't show more fondness for my friends than you do, I'd at least have the good grace to stay away from them. You've used me very shabbily indeed, Joe Woods, and I've got the spirit to resent it.