human
It's no use, I tell you! Goodness knows where you may have dropped it, and if you think I'm going to traipse back you're much mistaken. We're late as it is, and a pretty to-do there'll be when I get in. It's your own fault for not taking better care of it.
gpt
Have you lost anything?
human
It's his book, answered the servant.
gpt
He's dropped it out of the pram somewhere on the way from Whitecliffe; but I can't go back for it, it's too far, and we've got to be getting home.
human
What kind of a book was it?
gpt
Fairy tales. Have you found it? said the child eagerly.
human
All about Rumpelstiltzkin and 'The Goose Girl' and 'The Seven Princesses'.
gpt
We haven't found it, but we'll look for it on our way back. Have you any idea where you dropped it?
human
I was reading it in the town while Lizzie went inside the shops. Then I forgot about it till just now. Oh, I _must_ know what happened when the Prince went to see the old witch!
gpt
He's such a child for reading! At it all day long! explained the servant.
human
He thinks as much of an old book as some of us would of golden sovereigns. Well, we must be getting on, Eric. I can't stop.
gpt
Look here! said Dona.
human
We'll hunt for the book on our way back to Whitecliffe. If we find it we'll meet you here to-day fortnight at the same time and give it to you.
gpt
And suppose you don't find it?
human
I think the fairies will bring it to us somehow. You come here to-day fortnight and see. Cheer oh! Don't cry!
gpt
He wants his tea, said the servant.
human
Hold on to those parcels, Eric, or we shall be dropping something else.
gpt
Poor wee chap! I wonder what's the matter with him? said Elaine, when the long perambulator had turned the corner.
human
And I wonder where he can possibly be going? There are no houses that way--only a wretched little village with a few cottages.
gpt
I can't place him at all, replied Marjorie.
human
He's not a poor person's child, and he's not exactly a gentleman's. The carriage was very shabby, with such an old rug; and the girl wasn't tidy enough for a nurse, she looked like a general slavey. Dona, I don't believe you'll find that book.
gpt
I don't suppose I shall, returned Dona;
human
Oh, good! What a splendid idea!
gpt
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