human
There may have been; but in the last letter which Miss Longestaffe did me the honour to write to me,--a letter with which I have not the slightest right to find any fault,--she seemed to me to confine herself almost exclusively to that reason.
gpt
Why mention this now, Mr. Brehgert; why mention this now? The subject is painful.
human
Just because it is not painful to me, Mr. Longestaffe; and because I wish that all they who have heard of the matter should know that it is not painful. I think that throughout I behaved like a gentleman. Mr. Longestaffe, in an agony, first shook his head twice, and then bowed it three times, leaving the Jew to take what answer he could from so dubious an oracle.
gpt
I am sure, continued Brehgert,
human
Perhaps on so delicate a subject the less said the soonest mended.
gpt
I've nothing more to say, and I've nothing at all to mend.