human
Your Majesty, will you hear me for one moment?
gpt
For an hour, with pleasure, Herr Schmidt,
human
It is an untradesman-like and an unusual thing to decline an order; and if your Majesty asked for my heart's blood, I am ready to shed it, not to speak of anything in the line of my business--namely, boot and shoe making. But keep a secret from my wife, I fairly own to your Majesty that I can _not_.
gpt
Rise, Herr Schmidt, said the king, taking him by the hand.
human
A more honourable and chivalrous confession of an amiable weakness, if it is to be called a weakness, I never heard. Sir, you have been true to your honour and your prince, in face of what few men can bear, the chance of ridicule. There is no one here, I hope, but respects and will keep the secret of Herr Schmidt's confession?
gpt
Long live King Prigio the Good!
human
Indeed, sire, said the swordmaker,
gpt
That is none the worse for my purpose gentlemen, said his Majesty;