human
You will never mention the Prince of Tosa to me again,
gpt
Never, mistress, sobbed Tika;
human
Well, I forgive you. Talk to me of my beloved as you used to do.
gpt
Alack! he is dead, said Tika;
human
I can only mourn with you.
gpt
Don't you think I was speedily consoled?
human
Why, I thought-- she stammered,
gpt
I thought he was wrong to submit to defeat in your presence.
human
What if I were to tell you that he was never defeated, that he is alive--.
gpt
He triumphs over your heart; he lives in your imagination: that is what you mean.
human
No; he still breathes the breath of life.
gpt
Alas, that is impossible! Before our eyes--I shudder to think of it still--his ghastly head fell to the ground.
human
That man, whose death we witnessed, was not Iwakura.
gpt
Has grief affected her reason?
human
You think me mad? said Fatkoura,
gpt
You shall see, when he comes to open the doors of our prison, whether I speak the truth.
human
Better this strange hallucination than her former blank despair!