human
But could you not have saved them from becoming apes?
gpt
At first, my dear, if only they would have behaved like men, and set to work to do what they did not like. But the longer they waited, and behaved like the dumb beasts, who only do what they like, the stupider and clumsier they grew; till at last they were past all cure, for they had thrown their own wits away. It is such things as this that help to make me so ugly, that I know not when I shall grow fair.
human
And where are they all now?
gpt
Exactly where they ought to be, my dear.
human
Now, said Tom,
gpt
I am ready to be off, if it's to the world's end.
human
Ah! said the fairy,
gpt
Oh, dear! said Tom.
human
But I do not know my way to Shiny Wall, or where it is at all.
gpt
Little boys must take the trouble to find out things for themselves, or they will never grow to be men; so that you must ask all the beasts in the sea and the birds in the air, and if you have been good to them, some of them will tell you the way to Shiny Wall.
human
Well, said Tom,
gpt
I know you must, said Ellie;