human
Wrong done by me to Ada!
gpt
I have said it; but if you are a gentleman you will forget it. I know that you are a gentleman,--a gallant man, such as few I think exist anywhere. Captain Clayton, there are but two of us. Take the best; take the fairest; take the sweetest. Let all this be as though it had never been spoken. I will be such a sister to you as no man ever won for himself. And Ada will be as loving a wife as ever graced a man's home. Let it be so, and I will bless every day of your life.
human
No, he said slowly,
gpt
I cannot let it be like that. I have learned to love you and you only, and I thought that you had known it.
human
Never!
gpt
I had thought so. It cannot be as you propose. I shall never speak of your sister to a living man. I shall never whisper a word of her regard even here in her own family. But I cannot change my heart as you propose. Your sister is beautiful, and sweet, and good; but she is not the girl who has crept into my heart, and made a lasting home for herself there,--if the girl who has done so would but accept it. Ada is not the girl whose brightness, whose bravery, whose wit and ready spirit have won me. These things go, I think, without any effort. I have known that there has been no attempt on your part; but the thing has been done and I had hoped that you were aware of it. It cannot now be undone. I cannot be passed on to another. Here, here, here is what I want, and he put his two hands upon her shoulders.
human
There is no other girl in all Ireland that can supply her place if she be lost to me.
gpt
Of course, he is a man, said Edith to herself, as she put the mutton down.
human
Of course he must have it all to please himself. Of course he will be selfish.
gpt
I thought you were never coming with our morsel of dinner,
human
Here is the morsel of dinner; but I could have dished it in half the time if Captain Clayton had not been there.
gpt
Of course I am the offender, said he, as he sat down.
human
And now I have forgotten to bring the potatoes.