human
Lady Florence, said Ernest,
gpt
added Ernest, with a proud smile,
human
You accept the proposal?
gpt
Nay,--should I not reject it? Our politics are the same only for the moment, our ultimate objects are widely different. To serve with Mr. ------, I must make an unequal compromise--abandon nine opinions to promote one. Is not this a capitulation of that great citadel, one's own conscience? No man will call me inconsistent, for, in public life, to agree with another on a party question is all that is required; the thousand questions not yet ripened, and lying dark and concealed in the future, are not inquired into and divined; but I own I shall deem myself worse than inconsistent. For this is my dilemma,--if I use this noble spirit merely to advance one object, and then desert him where he halts, I am treacherous to him; if I halt with him, but one of my objects effected, I am treacherous to myself. Such are my views. It is with pain I arrive at them, for, at first, my heart beat with a selfish ambition.
human
You are right, you are right, exclaimed Florence, with glowing cheeks;