human
Why, I asked, thinking to further sound his sincerity,
gpt
By the Statue of God! cried Grauble, his body shaking and his voice quavering,
human
Captain, I said, placing my hand on the shoulder of the palsied man,
gpt
You are a strange man, he said.
human
I have met none before like you. I do not know at what aims you are driving. If you plotted my disgrace by leading me into these confessions, you have found me easy prey. But do not credit yourself too much. I have often vowed I would go to Admiral von Kufner, and say these things to him. But the formal exterior of that petty pompous man I cannot penetrate. If I have confessed to you, it is merely because you are a man without that protecting shield of bristling authority and cold formality. You seemed merely a man of flesh and blood, despite your decorations, and so I have talked. What is to be made of it by you or by me I do not know, but I am not afraid of you.
gpt
I shall leave you now, I said,