human
And why? said I, continued the vagrant,
gpt
pointing to Dymock's aunt,
human
Ah! exclaimed Mrs. Margaret, smiling,
gpt
I understand it now;
human
So, said she,
gpt
What for?
human
So she fetched me a silver plate half filled with salt, and I laid it on the corpse; 'and now,' I said, 'we must have rue and marjoram, run down and get me some;' and then I frightened her, poor fool as she was, by telling her that by the limpness of the hand of the corpse, I augured another death very soon in the house.
gpt
When I told this to Rebecca, the creature was so frightened, that away she ran, leaving me in the room with the body. Swift as thought, continued the woman,
human
I caught the silver dish, and was running down stairs,--it was gloaming--when I saw a door open opposite the chamber of death, and there, in the glimmering, I saw the child of the family asleep in a little crib. She had on her usual dress, with the ornaments I spoke of, and seemed to have fallen asleep before her time, as she was not undressed. I caught her up, asleep as she was, and the next moment I was out in the yard, and across the court, and through the back-door, and away over the common, and to where I knew that none would follow me, but they of my people, who would help my flight.
gpt
And the child with you, said Salmon,
human
More I will not tell, added the woman;
gpt
I have told you, said the Laird,
human
No, Dymock, said the vagrant;
gpt
I know you to be a man of truth, and in that dependence you shall hear all.
human
I stripped the child of her gaudery, I wrapped her in rags, and I slung her on my back; but I did her no harm, and many a weary mile I bore her, till I came to the moor; and then, because she was a burden, and because the brand on her shoulder would assuredly identify her, if suspicion fell on me for having stolen her, I left her in the old blacksmith's shed, and there she found a better father than you would have made her; for what are you but a wicked Jew, with a heart as hard as the gold you love.