human
Mr. Oglander, said Hardenow, coming forward and offering his hand, while Esther looked at them from beneath a cloud of smoke,
gpt
I know your name better than you know mine. You happened to be on the continent when I was staying in your village. My name is Thomas Hardenow. I am a priest of the Anglican Church, and have no intention of setting anything on fire.
human
Lor' bless me! Lord bless me! Are you the young fellow that turned half the heads of Beckley, and made the Oxford examiners all tumble back, like dead herrings with their jaws down? Cripps was in the schools, and he told me all about it. And you were a friend of poor Overshute. I am proud to make your acquaintance, sir.
gpt
Master Cripps has inverted the story, I fear, Hardenow answered, with a glance at Esther; while he could not, without rudeness, get his hand out of the ancient Squire's (which clung to another, in this weak time, as heartily as it used to do);
human
Not a bit of it! I was fool enough--or rather I should say, my sister--to have a lot of doctors down; fellows worth their weight in gold, or at any rate in brass, every day of their own blessed lives; and yet with that temptation even, they cannot lengthen their own days. Of that I will tell you some other time. They kept me indoors, and they drenched me with physic--this, that, and the other. God bless you, sir, this hour of the air, with my own old good mare under me, has done me more good--but my head goes round; just a little; not anything to notice. Etty, my dear, don't you be afraid.