human
Strike a light, if you have any handy, but don't come too near me in the dark, said Renshaw.
gpt
This joker's fangs may still be of some account, albeit he's stone dead.
human
What the very deuce is the meaning of it all?
gpt
Only this--that you were as near passing on your checks as you ever will be, was the reply,
human
And you may thank this thunderstorm for it that you didn't. The thunder awoke me at once, though it didn't you, and of course I went outside to look at the weather. Then, by the glare of a flash of lightning, I spotted this brute. He was lying bang across both your legs, with his head against the wall. The flash lasted just long enough for me to lay hold of his tail, and I knew the geography of the room well enough to whirl him up and bring his head down upon the hardest part of the table.
gpt
Scott! he burst forth at last.
human
Well, we are quits now, at any rate. But that's something like a nightmare.