human
Besides, it is something for my advantage, added Parley.
gpt
I will not open the door, that is certain; but as he is to come alone, he can do me no harm through the bars of the windows: and he will think I am a coward if I don't keep my word. No, I will let him see that I am not afraid of my own strength; I will show him I can go what length I please, and stop short _when_ I please.
human
Though I assure you, said he,
gpt
I have not a friend but what is as harmless as myself.
human
As to the BOOK, Mr. Flatterwell, said he,
gpt
I do not know whether it be true or false. I rather neglect than disbelieve it. I am forced, indeed, to hear it read once a week, but I never look into it myself, if I can help it.
human
Excellent, said Flatterwell to himself,
gpt
Why can not we be a little nearer, Mr. Parley, said Flatterwell;
human
I am afraid of being overheard by some of your master's spies. The window from which you speak is so high; I wish you would come down to the door.
gpt
Well, said Parley,
human
I see no great harm in that. There is a little wicket in the door through which we may converse with more ease and equal safety. The same fastenings will be still between us. So down he went, but not without a degree of fear and trembling. The little wicket being now opened, and Flatterwell standing close on the outside of the door, they conversed with great ease.
gpt
Mr. Parley, said Flatterwell,
human
I should not have pressed you so much to admit me into the castle, but out of pure disinterested regard to your own happiness. I shall get nothing by it, but I can not bear to think that a person so wise and amiable should be shut up in this gloomy dungeon, under a hard master, and a slave to the unreasonable tyranny of his BOOK OF LAWS. If you admit me, you need have no more waking, no more watching. Here Parley involuntarily slipped back the bolt of the door.
gpt
To convince you of my true love, continued Flatterwell,
human
I have brought a bottle of the most delicious wine that grows in the wilderness. You shall taste it, but you must put a glass through the wicket to receive it, for it is a singular property of this wine, that we of the wilderness can not succeed in conveying it to you of the castle, without you hold out a vessel to receive it.
gpt
O here is a glass,