human
I shall try to like him. I am past nineteen, and at twenty-one I shall be my own mistress. If I do not like him, I shall not live with him any longer after that.
gpt
I think you will not, in any case, live at Mr. Colquhoun's residence, said Joseph;
human
A fortnight to wait.
gpt
You must not be shy of him, Joseph went on;
human
I do, said Phillis;
gpt
Mr. Dyson always tried to make me think highly of myself. He told me my education was better than that of any girl he knew. Of course that was partly his kind way of encouraging me. Mr. Dyson said that shyness was a kind of cowardice, or else a kind of vanity. People who are afraid of other people, he said, either mistrust themselves or think they are not rated at their true value. But I think I am not at all afraid of strangers. Do I look like being afraid? She drew herself up to her full height and smiled a conscious superiority.
human
Perhaps you will think that I rate myself too highly.
gpt
That, said Joseph, with a compliment really creditable for a beginner,--