human
Poor Monsieur Miflorès no sooner heard that song than he rushed onto the plank; but he made a misstep and fell into the water. The current dragged him away--it seems that he couldn't swim. And when they succeeded in fishing him up, he was dead!
gpt
Dead! Can it be that he is dead? Poor Seringat!--for that really was his true name.--Well! there's no doubt that your Monsieur Ronflard did a good stroke of business then!
human
Why, monsieur, he seemed to be terribly distressed; he had the jaundice on account of it, and he only left Paris yesterday.--'I must go and tell Madame Seringat she's a widow,' he says to me, when he went away; 'I feel sure that it won't make her feel so badly as I do.'
gpt
Be kind enough to give me my plate of snails, madame, with some bread and wine; for, after all, if I don't eat them, that won't bring poor Seringat to life. That's why I prefer to eat them.