human
Nowhere, he was so good as to say,
gpt
Ugh! he said with disgust,
human
I know you; I know your likes. Want to make your set complete--eh? Want to sneak one of our books to do it with, don't you? Ah! He looked into the back shop before he returned to his paste and his slips.
gpt
That was Mr. Potts, the great Queen Anne collector, sir. Most notorious book-snatcher in all London, and the most barefaced. Wanted our fourth volume of the 'Athenian Oracle.' I saw his eyes reached out this way, and that way, and always resting on that volume. I saw him edging along to the shelf. Got another odd volume just like it in his wicked old hand, ready to change it when I wasn't looking.
human
Ah, said Mr. Emblem, waking up from his dream of Iris and her father's letter;
gpt
No thanks, as usual, grumbled Mr. James as he returned to his gum and his scissors.
human
Might as well have left him to snatch the book.