human
I am the elder brother, sir, of an officer who, some months since, did himself the honor of calling upon you.
gpt
His visit still lives in my memory as one most pleasant. He confided to me a manuscript which I would be glad to take this opportunity of returning, with my assurances of entire sympathy in his love of nature, and still more in his noble indignation against tyrants, his eloquent invectives against ambition. Tell him, too, from me, how much I admire his style; its rich imagery--its--
human
I must not let you go on, sir, for such praise has already rendered it difficult to avow myself the author of the book. I had not courage to submit it to you myself, but my younger and more adventurous brother gladly availed himself of it as a plea for his intrusion.
gpt
I was at that moment thinking of your brother; he had told me of the names given by loving hearts in Italy to the stars, and I was reflecting that our associations with flowers were still trammeled by such a rugged nomenclature; it is enough to make the science of botany detestable.
human
Ah, sir, you will teach all to love it; already has your _Etudes de la Nature_ made it popular throughout Europe. I myself had formed a floral dial at a villa at Florence where my regiment was quartered; every hour of the night and of the day was marked by the opening of different flowers. I am passionately fond of them, and can well understand the Dutchman lavishing a fortune upon a tulip, and spending a life in giving it some new variety of tint.
gpt
What a simple-minded family! thought Bernardin.
human
One brother worships the starry splendor of the heavens, and the other luxuriates in flowers, and spends his idle garrison hours in watching them as they bud forth at every hour of the day; and these two young men are soldiers! War has not hardened their hearts, nor conquest made them despise simple pleasures. And now, Saint Pierre, leaning on his new friend, proceeded to show him his flowers,
gpt
he said,
human
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari
gpt
Yes! happy the wise man who penetrates the arcana of nature, and who tramples under foot the world's prejudices. And as he stooped to pluck a daisy, he added,