human
You cheer up, Nancy, said John Oggs, who was the sexton's opponent in the controversy.
gpt
Price is all right, and he'll turn up again one of these days, all boiled yellow by the sun.
human
What a strange thing Life is,
gpt
A strange thing indeed, said old Canthrop.
human
A strange thing.
gpt
The sun makes one red, not yellow, said the sexton.
human
But it's small colour he's showing now, poor boy, I can tell you. In them furrin parts knives aint reserved for cheese. And he'd have written for sure.
gpt
Ah, sexton, said John to escape the perpetual topic,
human
I can see you're a man of ideas.
gpt
Well, Mr Gaffekin, I may not have been to Oxford, as I say, but I does think. As I said to Parson once before a burial. 'You and I, sir,' I said, 'are thinking men.' It goes with the business.
human
It must be dreadful work, said John Oggs.
gpt
Digging holes for dead men. Well, we must all go under.
human
Ay, indeed,
gpt
Don't speak from the bottom of your throat like that, said Peter Smith.
human
It gives me the horrors, with all this talk about death and all.
gpt
Death should not give anyone the horrors, said the sexton, who attended church regularly.
human
It is but the Portal, Of a better life beyond.
gpt
But it's rather nice to have the horrors sometimes, came Nancy's voice from behind the bar.
human
I wonder why!
gpt
Not but what, continued the sexton,