human
She certainly is not like what she was when Colonel Forrester first knew her, he said, in the abstracted tone of one talking without reference to any other auditor than himself;
gpt
Captain Jackson, said Gerald, aroused by this remark, and with great emphasis of tone, while he laid his hand impressively on the shoulder of the other,
human
How do you know this?
gpt
From her own solemn declaration at a moment when deception could avail her not. Even before she swallowed the fatal poison, her horror at the imputation, which drove her to the perpetration of murder, was expressed in terms of indignant warmth that belong to truth alone.
human
If this be so, said Jackson, musingly,
gpt
Why, it's rather short warning to be sure; but the Colonel thinks you'd better start before the thing gets wind in the morning; for as so many of the niggers say you wore a sort of a disguise as well as the poor girl, he fears the citizens may suspect you of something more than an intrigue, and insult you desperately.
human
Generous, excellent man! exclaimed Gerald,
gpt
Why, the best way I take it, is to profit by the offer that is made you of getting back to Canada as fast as you can.
human
But how is this to be done, and will not the very fact of my flight confirm the suspicion it is intended to remove?
gpt
As for the matter of how it is to be done, Liftenant, I have as slick a horse waiting outside for you as man ever crossed--one of the fleetest in Colonel Forrester's stud. Then as for suspicion, he means to set that at rest, by saying that he has taken upon himself to give you leave to return on parole to your friends, who wish to see you on a case of life and death, and now let's be moving.