human
I'm so fond of this old place, said Cleve, to fill in a pause.
gpt
I should be ashamed to say--you'd think me a fool almost--how often I take a run over here in my boat, and wander about its grounds and walls, quite alone. If there's a transmigration of souls, I dare say mine once inhabited a friar of Penruthyn--I feel, especially since I last came to Ware, such an affection for the old place.
human
It's a very nice taste, Mr. Verney. You have no reason to be ashamed of it, said the old lady, decisively.
gpt
Young men, now-a-days, are so given up to horses and field games, and so little addicted to anything refined, that I'm quite glad when I discover any nice taste or accomplishment among them. You must have read a great deal, Mr. Verney, to be able to tell us all the curious things you did about this old place and others.
human
Perhaps I'm only making a great effort--a show of learning on an extraordinary occasion. You must see how my stock lasts to-day. You are looking into that old park, Miss Fanshawe, said Cleve, slily crossing to her side.
gpt
We call it the Warren; but it was once the Priory Park. There is a very curious old grant from the Prior of Penruthyn, which my uncle has at Ware, of a right to pasture a certain number of cows in the park, on condition of aiding the verderer in keeping up the green underwood. There is a good deal of holly still there, and some relics of the old timber, but not much. There is not shelter for deer now. But you never saw anything like the quantity of rabbits; and there are really, here and there, some very picturesque fragments of old forest--capital studies of huge oak trees in the last stage of venerable decay and decrepitude, and very well worthy of a place in your sketch-book.
human
I dare say; I should only fear my book is hardly worthy of them,
gpt
I forgot to show you this when you were here before. He stopped short, brushing aside the weeds with his walking-cane.
human
Here are the bases of the piers of the old park gate.
gpt
What is she thinking of? he speculated;