human
It's all wrong, he cried, with a sudden force which claimed the girl's attention, and, for the time at least, held her troubled thought suspended.
gpt
How can this be your doing? Why for should it be a curse on you because two fellers shoot each other up? They hated each other because of you. Wal--that's natural. It's dead human. It's been done before, an' I'm sure guessin' it'll be done again. It's not you. It's--it's nature--human nature. Say, Miss Joan, you ain't got the lessons of these hills right yet. Folks out here are diffrent to city folks. That is, their ways of doin' the same things are diff'rent. We feel the same--that's because we're made the same--but we act diff'rent. If I'd bin around, I'd have shot Ike--with a whole heap of pleasure. An' if I had, wher's the cuss on you? Kissin' a gal like that can't be done around here.
human
But Pete was not here. He didn't know.
gpt
It don't matter a cent, cried Buck, his teeth clipping his words.
human
He needed his med'cine--an' got it.
gpt
You don't understand, and--and I can't tell it you all. Sometimes I feel I could kill myself. How can I help realizing the truth? It is forced on me. I am a leper, a--a pariah.