human
If you design, said Sir William Ashton,
gpt
Sir William Ashton, said Ravenswood,
human
I pray you, and all who hear me, that you will not mistake my purpose. If this young lady, of her own free will desires the restoration of this contract, as her letter would seem to imply, there is not a withered leaf which this autumn wind strews on the heath that is more valueless in my eyes. But I must and will hear the truth from her own mouth; without this satisfaction I will not leave this spot. Murder me by numbers you possibly may; but I am an armed man--I am a desperate man, and I will not die without ample vengeance. This is my resolution, take it as you may. I WILL hear her determination from her own mouth; from her own mouth, alone, and without witnesses, will I hear it. Now, choose, he said drawing his sword with the right hand, and, with the left, by the same motion taking a pistol from his belt and cocking it, but turning the point of one weapon and the muzzle of the other to the ground--
gpt
It's no what man can do, that will heal my body, or save my spirit. Let me speak what I have to say, and then ye may work your will, I'se be nae hinderance. But where's Henry Bertram? The assistants, to whom this name had been long a stranger, gazed upon each other.
human
Yes, she said, in a stronger and harsher tone,
gpt
I said Henry Bertram of Ellangowan. Stand from the light and let me see him.
human
Look at him, she said,
gpt
A murmur went through the crowd--the resemblance was too striking to be denied.
human
And now hear me--and let that man, pointing to Hatteraick, who was seated with his keepers on a sea-chest at some distance--
gpt
(pointing to Hatteraick),
human
Dirk Hatteraick, you and I will never meet again until we are before the judgment seat--will you own to what I have said, or will you dare deny it? He turned his hardened brow upon her, with a look of dumb and inflexible defiance.
gpt
Dirk Hatteraick, dare ye deny, with my blood upon your hands, one word of what my dying breath is uttering? He looked at her with the same expression of hardihood and dogged stubbornness, and moved his lips, but uttered no sound.
human
Then fareweel! she said,