human
Mother, listen to me. I have but a short time to live, and I cannot die till I learn if you have kept your vow of vengeance, made long ago against Lord De Courcy.
gpt
I have! I have! she exclaimed, rousing to something like her old fierceness.
human
Oh, Reginald! you have been avenged. I have wrung drops of blood from their hearts, even as they wrung them from mine. Yes, yes! I have avenged you! They, too, know what it is to lose a child!
gpt
Mother! mother! what have you done?
human
I stole their child! their infant daughter the heiress of all the De Courcys, the last of her line! Yes, I stole her! She fairly shrieked now, with blazing eyes.
gpt
I vowed to bring her up in sin and pollution, and I would have done so, too, if I had not been stricken with a living death. Oh, Reginald! your mother avenged you! A child for a child! They banished you, and I stole their heir!
human
Oh, mother! mother! what is this you have done--where is that child now?
gpt
Yonder! cried the gipsy, with a sort of fierce, passionate cry, pointing one shaking finger toward the terrified Erminie;
human
Lord and Lady De Courcy! why, they are here in America--in Baltimore, now. Good heavens! can our Erminie be anything to them? Oh, I knew she was; I saw the likeness the very first moment we met.
gpt
Who says Lord and Lady De Courcy are here?
human
I do! said Ranty, stepping forward;