human
Take your revenge; my neck is in your power.
gpt
Judgment must be pronounced on you first. Listen to your judgment, Sieur de Lincy, or Répentigny. Inasmuch as, years ago, you hunted brave men who through you were condemned to death, which they suffered on the wheel; inasmuch as you wickedly murdered the starving peasants of the parishes of Eaux Tranquilles while in the pursuit of liberty; inasmuch as you resisted the sovereign people and sided with the cut-throats of Versailles, when you participated in the crimes of the Bodyguard; inasmuch as you have been of the party of conspirators against the Revolution, and have plotted with the tyrant Capet and his widow for the Counter-revolution; inasmuch as you are a suspect, inasmuch as you are an _emigré_; inasmuch as you are a rich and an aristocrat; inasmuch as you, Germain Lecour, son of François Xavier Lecour, peasant of Canada, and grandson of a butcher of Paris, did thus oppress the people without the excuse of hereditary illusion, but were a cheat and adventurer sprung from their own bosom; inasmuch as in order to do so you have broken many laws of the land and natural rights of mankind, have outraged the sacred names of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, and have brought, especially upon yourself, the retribution of that Order of the Galley-on-Land, part of which was assembled before you in the cave of Fontainebleau; know now then, for the first time, that through all these dealings you have been tracked by them in your every movement; that your misdeeds were collected, not forgotten; that our vengeance was on your path and waited but the time that suited us; that to hundreds unknown to you it will be a day of feasting to see you die; that they will drink wine for your blood and eat bread for your flesh, and when your head drops into the basket, they will regret the days of tyranny for this only--that the humanity of these times does not allow of breaking you in turn on the wheel.
human
You are frank,
gpt
I have one more '_inasmuch_,' said he, with a sting in his tone and a gleam in his eye.
human
Inasmuch as by your imposture you deceived and misled a heart too pure and lofty for such as you to have dared towards----
gpt
Strike him! roared Grancey.
human
You must die anyway. Strike, in default of a sword to run him through!
gpt
He dares not! the Admiral exclaimed to the group of aristocrats.
human
You take him for one of yourselves. You are his dupes like the others.
gpt
You admit this _inasmuch_?
human
It is true, true, true, moaned Germain.
gpt
I may not deny it--the greatest crime of all my crimes.
human
Had he denied it here are the proofs, absolutely beyond question!
gpt
By the saints! what a conclusion,