human
My lord, my ladies!
gpt
Oh my dears! Here at last--out of that horrid city of the plague! Such sights as I have seen-- and then he paused.
human
Do you know, Val and Lucia, I'm glad I've seen it: I don't know, but I feel as if I should be a better man all my life; and those poor people, how well they did behave! And the Major, he's an angel! And so's that brick of a doctor, and the mad schoolmistress, and the curate. Everybody, I think, but me. Hang it, Val! but your words shan't come true! I will be of some use yet before I die! But I've--
gpt
You have been of use already, dear Fred. You have sent me and the dear children to this sweet place, where we have been safer and happier than-- (she checked herself);
human
What a pity it is now, that I should have two such sweet creatures making love to me, and can't marry either of them? Why did ye go and be my father's daughters, mavourneen? I'd have made a peeress of the one of ye, if ye'd had the sense to be anybody else's sisters.