human
If I am miserable, there is no reason why the rest of you should not have breakfast,
gpt
It makes no difference to them how I am, she remarked to herself as the doctor, turning from her with slow step, started to run up the steps of the station-house.
human
They are well, and it's all the same to them. O my God!
gpt
How now, Eduard Ivánovitch, said the husband, as he met the doctor, and rubbing his hands with a gay smile.
human
I have ordered my travelling-case brought; what do you say to that?
gpt
That's worth while,
human
Well now, how about _her_?
gpt
I have told you that she cannot reach Moscow, much less Italy, especially in such weather.
human
What is to be done, then? Oh! my God! my God!
gpt
Give it here,
human
You'll have to stop somewhere on the route,
gpt
But tell me, how can that be done? rejoined the husband.
human
I have done every thing to keep her from going: I have spoken to her of our means, and of our children whom we should have to leave behind, and of my business. She would not hear a word. She has made her plans for living abroad, as though she were well. But if I should tell her what her real condition is, it would kill her.
gpt
Well, she is a dead woman now: you may as well know it, Vasíli Dmítritch. A person cannot live without lungs, and there is no way of making lungs grow again. It is melancholy, it is hard, but what is to be done about it? It is my business and yours to make her last days as easy as possible. It is the confessor that is needed here.
human
Oh, my God! Now just perceive how I am situated, in speaking to her of her last will. Let come whatever may, yet I cannot speak of that. And yet you know how good she is.
gpt
Try at least to persuade her to wait until the roads are frozen, said the doctor, shaking his head significantly:
human
Aksiúsha, oh, Aksiúsha! cried the superintendent's daughter, throwing a cloak over her head and tiptoeing down the muddy back steps.
gpt
Come along. Let us have a look at the Shirkínskaya lady: they say she's got lung-trouble, and they're taking her abroad. I never saw how any one looked in consumption.