human
She told me: 'Oh, no, he was the only support his mother and his sister had, and there were all the little children. He _had_ to stay.'
gpt
Oh, stop! stop! it makes me sick to hear. I could boil them in oil, that family! Quick! You saw him? You brought him away? You--
human
I saw him, said Vieyra,
gpt
I drove that afternoon up to a still tinier village in the mountains near where he lived, and there I slept that night--or, at least, I lay in a bed.
human
Of course, you could not sleep, broke in the listening woman;
gpt
I shall not to-night.
human
When dawn came I dressed and went out to wander until people should be awake. I walked far, through fields, and then through a wood as red as red-gold--like nothing I ever saw. It was in October, and the sun was late to rise. When I came out on an uplying heath, the mists were just beginning to roll away from the valley below. As I stood there, leaning against a tree in the edge of the wood, some cows came by, little, pinched, lean cows and a young dog bounding along, and then, after them, slowly, an old man in gray--very lame.
gpt
He did not see me. He whistled to the dog and stroked his head, and then as the cows went through a gate, he turned and faced the rising sun, the light full on his face. He looked at the valley coming into sight through the mists. He was so close to me I could have tossed a stone to him--I shall never know how long he stood there--how long I had that face before me.
human
He was--?