human
What is monsieur's programme? chirped the chevalier.
gpt
Does he dally with Fortune's train, or does he brush by her robes and seize the treasure which she guards? Shall _mon ami_ live the short and merry life of conviviality with me in New York, or shall he choose the short and beastly bad career of a soldier?
human
What is my life worth to me without fame to gild it? growled he.
gpt
I have no gold to make it shine.
human
shouted the chevalier, clapping his hands; then, with a smile which just showed his long teeth in a hungry arch,
gpt
I, too, will go southward, because, that to me my life is very much worth, and I will do bravely to gild it with--gold. We will be brother colonels, _mon ami_, and Thoms--what shall you do?
human
I'll follow you masters as long as you _live_,
gpt
We shall fight, by gar, for glory! cried the chevalier.
human
At least, we shall say so. But each has his motive pardieu, and a sensible motive is mine. Ah, life is nothing without illusions, as Mendelssohn says.
gpt
Nothing indeed, smiled the silent lips of Thoms,