human
Doña Orosia, I said, when I had done it to her liking.
gpt
If all you care for, in this other matter, is to get rid of my white face, I pray you kill me with your dagger and ask your lord to let my love go free.
human
Would you die for him?
gpt
Most willingly, an it please you to make my death his ransom.
human
Once I loved like that, she said in musing tones.
gpt
I will tell thee a tale, child, for I like not the reproach in those blue eyes. Five years ago, when I was as young as thou art now, I lived with my parents in Valencia, where the flowers are even sweeter and the skies bluer than here in sunny Florida. I had a lover in those days, who followed me like my shadow, and, in spite of my old duenna, found many a moment to pour his passion in my ears. He was a brave man and a handsome, and he won my heart from me. Though he had no great fortune I would have wed him willingly and followed him over land and sea. I never doubted him for a day; and when he came to my father's house with an old nobleman, his uncle and the head of his family, I was well content; for my mother told me they had asked for my hand and it had been promised. But when my father called me in at last to see my future husband, it was the old man who met me with a simper on his wrinkled face. I turned to the nephew; but he was gazing out of the window----
human
And so I came to marry my husband, the Governor of San Augustin!
gpt
The other was Don Pedro?
human
Has thy baby wit compassed that much? Yes, the other was Melinza.
gpt
But if you once loved him why should there be hate between you now?
human
Why? thou little fool! Why? --she put out one hand and drew me closer, so that she could look deep into my eyes.
gpt
Why does a woman ever hate a man? Canst tell me that?