human
Still here!
gpt
Your father, I see, neglected my suggestion that these heathen images had no place in any Christian house, and least of all in one attached, as this is, to a public function. We, no doubt, know the meaning of the symbols they bear; but how easily might the ordinary man, waiting here, mistake the figure with the mirror for Vanity and that with the scales Venality: 'Pay us what we ask,' she might be saying, 'or else your life is a forfeit,'--so the sword would imply.
human
When I come again--you know--I shall be pleased if my eye is no longer offended by these mementos of an extinct idolatry.
gpt
Truth and justice! replied Orion in a constrained voice.
human
They have dwelt on this spot and ruled in this house for nearly five hundred years.
gpt
It would look better, and be more suitable, retorted the patriarch,