human
Stay, said I; and looking at him more attentively than I had hitherto done, I perceived a change in his external appearance which somewhat startled and surprised me. Montreuil had always hitherto been remarkably plain in his dress; but he was now richly attired, and by his side hung a rapier, which had never adorned it before. Something in his aspect seemed to suit the alteration in his garb: and whether it was that long absence had effaced enough of the familiarity of his features to allow me to be more alive than formerly to the real impression they were calculated to produce, or whether a commune with kings and nobles had of late dignified their old expression, as power was said to have clothed the soldier-mien of Cromwell with a monarch's bearing,--I do not affect to decide; but I thought that, in his high brow and Roman features, the compression of his lip, and his calm but haughty air, there was a nobleness, which I acknowledged for the first time.
gpt
Stay, my father, said I, surveying him,
human
Policy, Morton, answered Montreuil,
gpt
But should there chance any occasion or necessity, one may wear better though still decorous garments.
human
There is now, then, some occasion for a more glittering display than ordinary?
gpt
There is, my pupil, answered Montreuil;
human
Closeted with kings, said I, soliloquizing,--