human
The chief, he remarked,
gpt
How is it with Jane?
human
If I am not greatly deceived, she prefers the chief to Sidney. I am not certain of it, however. She was too guarded in her looks for me to ascertain positively.
gpt
This is strange! What am I to do?
human
Not strange at all, Duncan, returned the trapper.
gpt
Do what is right, and all will be well enough.
human
The question then is, what is right?
gpt
Not a hard one, by any means, to answer. If she prefers him, and he will abandon his savage habits, live and be civilized like other people, let her take him by all means. He is a noble, generous fellow, and we are under great obligations to him, and common gratitude demands from us any consistent return.
human
But this mixing of the races!--I must acknowledge I can but feel a repugnance to it; but we will see what Jane says, and leave it all to her.
gpt
Do not ask me to leave them; I feel as if a separation from all my kindred would be fatal to my happiness. Your people are strangers to me; and though they would undoubtedly, as you say, be kind to me, yet it would not be like my own people. Their ways are not like ours; and though I could not live among them, you could with ours.
human
Whirlwind was cradled in the forest, and he is not a child to die in a white man's wigwam, returned the chief.
gpt
If the antelope will not go with him to his people, he must leave her;