human
I don't know what it is, Dan said one night,
gpt
How absurd, old boy! protested Tom.
human
He has saved our lives this frightful winter. I never knew your mother to be so cheerful and contented; Nancy seems to adore him, and you yourself are making the most of his fiddle lessons.
gpt
I know, Dan replied,
human
For the moment Dan forgot his complaint in the tender thought of his foster-sister.
gpt
It probably is absurd, he added presently,
human
Nonsense, Dan; you're not an old woman.
gpt
It may be, Tom, but I feel so anyway. The place hasn't seemed the same to me since that Frenchman came. I wish he would go away; and apparently he means to stay on forever.
human
I think you would miss him, if he were to go, insisted Pembroke,
gpt
He has fascinated you as he has fascinated Mother and Nance, Dan replied.
human
But it stands to reason, boy, that he can't be quite all right. What does he want poking about in a deserted old hole like Deal?
gpt
What he has said a thousand times; just what he so beautifully gets--quiet and seclusion.
human
Perhaps you are right and I am wrong; but all the same I shall be glad to see the last of him.