human
Sir, you have hurt me. You have hurt me to the heart.
gpt
No offence, sir, no offence,
human
You are my friend, sir, the other went on, gravely censorious.
gpt
I am your friend, sir. And you give me to understand that you think I have come out here to this hell-hole to say good-bye. I came out here to get you, sir, and your nigger, sir. The schooner is waiting for you. All is arranged. You are signed on the articles before the shipping commissioner. Both of you. Signed on yesterday by proxies I arranged for myself. One was a Barbadoes nigger. I got him and the white man out of a sailors' boarding-house on Commercial Street and paid them five dollars each to appear before the Commissioner and sign on.
human
But, my God, Mr. Greenleaf, you don't seem to grasp it that he and I are lepers.