human
There, now! I've went and set you a-crying! exclaimed Ranty, in a tone, or rather howl, of mingled remorse and distraction.
gpt
That's always the way I go and put my foot in whatever I go to do! I am a brute! a crocodile! a sea-serpent! a monster! an unmitigated bear! and I deserve a sound flogging for speaking to you as I did. Erminie! dear Erminie! dearest Erminie! forgive me, like a good girl. It was all owing to that hairy-faced fool, Ahringfeldt--I swear it was! I was jealous of him! madly jealous! the effeminate little cream-candy puppy! Dear Erminie, forgive me! Dearest Erminie, look up and say I am forgiven, or I will go to the nearest apothecary's, and put an end to my miserable existence with a gallon or two of Prussic acid. Dear, dearest, darling Erminie! only say you forgive me!
human
Oh, Ranty! how can you say such dreadful things? Oh, you frighten me to death! Promise me you will not kill yourself; it is so wicked, you know!
gpt
Beside being disagreeable to be sat on by a coroner and a dozen asses of jurymen. Well, I won't, if you will promise me one thing.
human
Oh, Ranty! I will promise anything if you will not do it.
gpt
Will you, though? Oh, Erminie! you're a nice young woman! Well, I want you to be my dear, little blue-eyed wife. Now, then, say yes.
human
Now, Erminie, that's no answer at all, said Ranty, taking down the hands.
gpt
You don't know what a capital husband I'll make. You can't begin to have the remotest idea of it, you know. Come, Erminie, say yes--there's a good girl.
human
Oh, Ranty!
gpt
Yes, I know; girls always look flustered in cases like this; but, somehow, they manage to say yes, after all. Now, Erminie, if you don't say yes, I'll go right straight off for the Prussic acid--mind that!
human
Well, yes, then,
gpt
Gloria in excelsis! alleluia! hurrah! Oh, Erminie! my own little darling! you have made me the happiest man from here to the antipodes. Oh, Erminie! I knew you would, all along! I always thought you had too much good sense to reject me for a puppy like the Honorable Augustus! exclaimed Ranty, in a rapture.
human
Oh, Erminie! I'll give you leave to cowhide me within an inch of my life if I ever give you a cross look or word again! Oh, Erminie--