human
Look--look into my eyes, deep--deep! she commanded.
gpt
Now--ha--speak me your name!
human
Martin,
gpt
Mar--tin, said she slowly.
human
I will call you Martino. Look now, Martino, have you not seen me long--long ere this?
gpt
No! I groaned.
human
God forbid!
gpt
And yet we have met, Martino, in this world or another, or mayhap in the world of dreams. But we have met--somewhere, at some time, and in that time I grasped you thus in my arms and stared down thus into your eyes and in that hour I, having killed you, watched you die, and fain would have won you back to life and me, for you were a man,--ah, yes, a man in those dim days. But now--ah, bah! You are but poor fool cozened into swallowing a harmless drug; to-morrow you shall be your sluggish self. Now sleep, but know this--I may slay you whenso I will! Ah, ah--'tis better to win my love than my hate. So she loosed me and stood a while looking down on me, then motioned with imperious hand:
human
Sleep, fool--sleep!
gpt
There are two at the fore. At the main hang three more Dead men that swing all of a row--