human
How are you, old fellow? Why, you look down in the dumps. Anything gone wrong?
gpt
Nothing,
human
Is everything all right?
gpt
Everything.
human
That's as it should be. I suppose you are surprised to see me drop down from the skies in this fashion.
gpt
I am indeed.
human
and he began to stride to and fro in the bachelor apartment;
gpt
I bequeathed all my youthful follies to my cousin Brock, who got his lieutenancy six weeks ago,
human
H'm! h'm! you're right: you're getting quite too old for such nonsense. And Otto stooped to examine two or three photographs that adorned his brother's writing-table.
gpt
That's a capital picture of old Countess Lenzdorff, he exclaimed,--
human
He took the faded picture, in its old-fashioned frame, to the window to examine it.
gpt
This is the best picture there is of her, he said.
human
Think of your ever being that pretty little rogue in a white frock in her arms, and I that boy in breeches by her side! Comical, but very attractive, such a picture of a young mother with her children. How she clasps you in her arms! She always loved you best. Where did you get this picture?
gpt
My mother gave it to me when I was quite young. She brought it to me when she came to see me in my first garrison, shortly before her death,
human
I remember; you had been wounded in your first duel.
gpt
Yes; she came to nurse me.
human
Ah, you've a deal on your conscience. No one would believe you were worse than I; but --with a look at the picture--
gpt
I'd give a great deal for such a little fellow as that.
human
Have you no picture of the Lenzdorff girl?
gpt
I may have one somewhere,