human
Stop! he cried,
gpt
And he advanced his arm above Juliet's body as if he would intervene his very heart between it and the place of darkness into which it was about to descend.
human
She was the victim, he the murderer; they shall not lie together if I have to fling myself between them in the grave which you have dug.
gpt
But--but, interposed the minister, calm and composed even in the face of this portentous figure and the appalling words which it had uttered,
human
The boards were sawn, was the startling answer.
gpt
They must have been sawn or they would never have given way beneath so light a weight. And then he urged her--I saw him--pleaded with her, drew her by force of eye and hand to step upon the scaffold without, though there was no need for it, and she recoiled. And when her light foot was on it and her half-smiling, half-timid face looked back upon us, he leaped out beside her, when instantly came the sound of a great crack, and I heard his laugh and her cry go up together, and--and--everything has been midnight in my soul ever since, till suddenly through the blank and horror surrounding me I caught the words, 'They will lie together in one tomb!' Then--then I awoke and my voice came back to me and my memory, and hither I hastened to stop this unhallowed work; for to lay the victim beside her murderer is a sacrilege which I for one would come back even from the grave to prevent.
human
But why, moaned the father feebly amid the cries and confusion which had been aroused by so gruesome an interference on the brink of the grave,