human
Well, sir, what say you?
gpt
That the good Abbe has displayed his usual skill in composition. And my mother? Is she imbued with our opinion of his priestship?
human
Not exactly, I fear. However, Heaven bless her, she is too soft to say 'nay.' But those Jesuits are so smooth-tongued to women. 'Gad, they threaten damnation with such an irresistible air, that they are as much like William the Conqueror as Edward the Confessor. Ha! master Aubrey, have you become amorous of the old Jacobite, that you sigh over his crabbed writing, as if it were a /billet-doux/?
gpt
There seems a great deal of feeling in what he says, Sir,
human
Feeling! cried the knight;
gpt
Right, dear sir, said I, wishing to change a subject which I knew might hurt Aubrey;
human
cried the good-natured knight;
gpt
I love to see the dear creatures amuse themselves; for, to tell you the truth, Morton, said he, sinking his voice into a knowing whisper,