human
Neither have I, Mardy, it's sure--don't be afraid, said Rob, hastily.
gpt
But when you want a thing so dreadfully, _dreadfully_ much you can't help thinking what it would be not to get it. And I feel as the Red Queen must have felt when she was a little girl, and had to believe three impossible things before breakfast. I do believe, but I have to try--try with both hands, as Her Red Majesty told Alice to do--to keep my faith, though I know it's all right all the while. And the invention is so nearly completed, Francie, that Patergrey thinks that next week he can write to the people in New York whom he wants to have buy it. Isn't that a comfort, after so long? It sounds so definite.
human
Indeed it does!
gpt
Oh, France, she said,
human
Oh, Rob; poor, dear, brave Rob! I am so sorry for you!
gpt
Now, don't pity me! she cried.
human
I have all I can do to keep steady if I am as hard as nails, and you see I _must_ keep gay for the others. I know, France; we know each other, but don't love me now! No one could have done me the good you have in giving me the hope of being useful. I'll never forget how you came in this black morning and tried to 'push dem clouds away'--you have made a big rift. If ever I get rich and famous I'll give you your heart's desire, and if ever I can help you while I'm poor--which may be a while yet, you know--I'll walk over the ocean to do it. But don't you love me nor pity me to-day.
gpt
All right. I don't love you any day; I despise you, and always did, said Frances, with a last squeeze as she withdrew her arms.
human
Now I must run home to tell mamma you are unanimous. She said if you liked the plan she would see all the parents she could this afternoon, and bid them send their little lambs for you to pipe to them.
gpt
Well, Francie, Patergrey does want me, so I suppose I ought to let you go, said Rob.
human
Tell your blessed mother I can never thank her, but tell her how troubled you found us, and she will understand the good she has done.