human
I must now entreat the explanation, and yet, I do not know whether Miss Forest will be inclined to give it. When we met for the last time, on that day of my return from L. with Frederic's corpse, Mr. Alison stood between us, and held your hand in his, firmly, as if by this one act he would assert his right to all the world, He need not have thought it necessary to deprive us in so decided a manner of all opportunity to be alone; the moment forbade any word but of sorrow for the dead; we both alike lost much in him.
gpt
You lost only a servant, Professor Fernow, she said.
human
The lot of my brother was one of cruel servitude from his earliest youth, and destiny would have been still more cruel to him had he not found in you a good master. I--did not make things easier for him while it lay in my power, and later, I could give him nothing--nothing but the cold marble above his grave!
gpt
And the last embrace of a sister!
human
He paid dearly enough for it, she said;