human
There's something I must say to you, sir, he began, carefully scrutinising the flowers on the zoologist's shirt.
gpt
It's confidential. I don't know the rules of duelling, damnation take them, and I don't want to, and I look on the matter not as a second and that sort of thing, but as a man, and that's all about it.
human
Yes. Well?
gpt
When seconds suggest reconciliation they are usually not listened to; it is looked upon as a formality. _Amour propre_ and all that. But I humbly beg you to look carefully at Ivan Andreitch. He's not in a normal state, so to speak, to-day--not in his right mind, and a pitiable object. He has had a misfortune. I can't endure gossip. . . .
human
But in view of the duel, I think it necessary to inform you, Laevsky found his madam last night at Muridov's with . . . another gentleman.
gpt
How disgusting! muttered the zoologist; he turned pale, frowned, and spat loudly.
human
Tfoo!