human
Spare her!--oh! spare her. Take my life instead.
gpt
Nelatu!
human
Yes, Nelatu; your cousin, your slave, if you will--only spare her life!
gpt
You forget her name.
human
No, no; I know it but too well.
gpt
You forget that her father has been the accursed cause of all this misery?
human
No; I remember that too.
gpt
Then you are insane thus to beg for her life. She must die!
human
I am not insane. Oh! Wacora, on my knees I implore you to spare her!
gpt
Rise, Nelatu; the son of Oluski should not bend his knee to man. At your intercession, her life shall be spared!
human
You are indeed our chief, Wacora. Your heart is open and generous.
gpt
Stay, yet, before you mistake me. I give you her life, but `an eye for an eye!' She shall suffer what Sansuta has suffered; spare her life, but not her honour.
human
Wacora!
gpt
I have said it. Here --turning to the assembled warriors who had been amazed witnesses of the scene--
human
Back! he cried.
gpt
The first who lays hands upon her, dies!
human
Heed him not; he is insane.
gpt
No; not insane.
human
Speak; what then?
gpt
I love her! I love her!