human
My lieutenant has ordered it! he said emphatically;
gpt
You take a burden from my heart, said Atkins mockingly.
human
I am infinitely obliged to you for the gratifying intelligence that we are neither to be thrown into a dungeon nor bound in chains; but my best Mr. Frederic, this metamorphose of your lieutenant borders on the fabulous. The professor has become a military hero from head to foot. His learned Eminence now understands, as it seems, excellently, how to command, and already in six weeks, has learned to throw out orders about posts, and arrangements and comrades, as if he had grown up in the field, instead of in the study. What has his Highness done then with his former timidity and absent-mindedness?
gpt
Left it in B., returned Frederic dryly,
human
Has the fellow really become intelligent! he muttered.
gpt
Nothing now can happen after this!
human
I come from Herr Lieutenant Fernow! He sends you three spies, and wishes you to consult further with the major.
gpt
Are you mad? cried the surgeon with a loud laugh.
human
What am I to do with the spies? Are they wounded?
gpt
No, they are all three sound and healthy.
human
Frederic, this is only another of your stupid freaks! said the captain, thoughtfully draining his glass.
gpt
To the major, the lieutenant must have said.
human
He said I must take them to the doctor, persisted Frederic,
gpt
Miss Forest! cried the surgeon, starting up.
human
Heaven and earth! Then Walter has a supreme happiness. Destiny now brings him the prize of war, and he cares nothing for it at all; sends the lady up here to us through an escort,--nobody in the whole world but Walter Fernow is capable of this!
gpt
Miss Forest! Who is Miss Forest? Tell us at once, Doctor!
human
Do not detain me, gentlemen! cried the doctor excitedly.
gpt
I must go, for as it appears, a stupid error has been committed. Would you know who Miss Forest is? A relative of our first physician in B.; a young American lady, heiress to a million, twenty years old, beautiful as a picture, a meteor, which all B. admires and adores, and whose unhappy devotee I also confess myself to be. God be gracious to you Frederic, if you have been guilty of an incivility to her!