human
You love her? he whispered, too, for now his voice seemed to be failing him--
gpt
With you! --and now the tears stood in the child's eyes as she shrank still further from him--
human
Why not? he asked almost fiercely, his despair driving him nearly to distraction.
gpt
Why not? Who is she? What share has she in you? You are mine, mine, mine! O child, I am your father! And suddenly overwrought by his emotions, by the broken hopes he had cherished, the vanishing of the future to which he had looked forward, he sprang to his feet and turned to Mademoiselle de Roquemaure.
human
I see it all, he said;
gpt
Stop! exclaimed Aurélie de Roquemaure, and as she spoke she drew herself to her full height and confronted him, while the child, trembling by her side, could not understand why her sister had changed so.
human
Stop and hear the truth since you force me to tell it. I stole your child because in that way alone could her life be saved, her safety at least be assured. My brother would--God forgive him!--have hidden her away forever; even then, as I learned afterward, the bishop's servant had stolen her from the inn in the city and was hastening to meet him. There was no time to lose; it was that man's life or hers, and--and--I acted by my mother's orders. Now, Monseigneur le Duc----