human
What should I go and see him for? repeated Samoylenko.
gpt
I did not insult him; he insulted me. Tell me, please, why he attacked me. What harm had I done him? I go into the drawing-room, and, all of a sudden, without the least provocation: 'Spy!' There's a nice thing! Tell me, how did it begin? What did you say to him?
human
I told him his position was hopeless. And I was right. It is only honest men or scoundrels who can find an escape from any position, but one who wants to be at the same time an honest man and a scoundrel --it is a hopeless position. But it's eleven o'clock, gentlemen, and we have to be up early to-morrow.
gpt
A squall, said the deacon.
human
We must go in, our eyes are getting full of dust.
gpt
I suppose I shan't sleep to-night.
human
Don't you agitate yourself, laughed the zoologist.
gpt
You can set your mind at rest; the duel will end in nothing. Laevsky will magnanimously fire into the air--he can do nothing else; and I daresay I shall not fire at all. To be arrested and lose my time on Laevsky's account--the game's not worth the candle. By the way, what is the punishment for duelling?
human
Arrest, and in the case of the death of your opponent a maximum of three years' imprisonment in the fortress.
gpt
The fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul?
human
No, in a military fortress, I believe.
gpt
Though this fine gentleman ought to have a lesson!