human
Have I not seen you at Court? Were you not presented six months ago in the Oeil de Boeuf?
gpt
I am only a provincial, he answered.
human
I know nothing of the Court.
gpt
When I first came from Dauphiny up to Versailles, laughed the Count de Bellecour,
human
I spoke such a _patois_ they thought I was a horse.
gpt
You come from Canada? Tell us about the Revolution in the English colonies. It is not a new affair, but we army men are always talking about it.
human
That was simple; it was the coming of age of a continent.
gpt
A war of liberty against oppression?
human
Rather, gentlemen, a war of human nature against human nature. We had experience of the armies of both sides in our Province.
gpt
Would I had been there with Lafayette!
human
You, d'Estaing! exclaimed Grancey.
gpt
You would cry if an Englishman spoiled your ruffles!
human
Sir, my second shall visit you this evening!
gpt
Pray, you twin imitations of Modesty-in-Person, let us have a real tragediette in steel and blood,