human
It is the torpor of ambition after one of its storms,
gpt
Have the dead so strong an attraction that at this hour they detain the courted and courtly Bolingbroke from the admiration and converse of the living?
human
Have you heard the news of the day?
gpt
How is it possible? I have but just arrived at Paris.
human
You do not know, then, that I have resigned my office under the Chevalier!
gpt
Resigned your office!
human
Resigned is a wrong word: I received a dismissal. Immediately on his return the Chevalier sent for me, embraced me, desired me to prepare to follow him to Lorraine; and three days afterwards came the Duke of Ormond to me, to ask me to deliver up the seals and papers. I put the latter very carefully in a little letter-case, and behold an end to the administration of Lord Bolingbroke! The Jacobites abuse me terribly; their king accuses me of neglect, incapacity, and treachery; and Fortune pulls down the fabric she has built for me, in order to pelt me with the stones!
gpt
My dear, dear friend, I am indeed grieved for you; but I am more incensed at the infatuation of the Chevalier. Surely, surely he must already have seen his error, and solicited your return?
human
Return! cried Bolingbroke, and his eyes flashed fire,--
gpt
--and here Bolingbroke's voice and manner changed,--
human
It becomes us neither to court nor to despise honours.