human
That is a very touching song, Miss Grace. Your voice vibrates in it as though your heart were heavy.
gpt
It is,
human
If you are in trouble, may I not try to be your comforter?
gpt
You are most kind, but I cannot tell you why my heart is heavy.
human
My heart is likewise heavy, Miss Grace; may I tell you why?
gpt
Surely, she answered,
human
Come near to me Miss Grace. I am involved in a trouble which I never dreamed of when I came here. Mine has been a harsh life, but I have always tried to meet my fate resignedly. Now I am overborne. Since the first hour I met you, first looked into your divine face, first felt your hand-clasp and heard your voice, my heart has been on fire. You have become my divinity. I worship you. Oh, Grace, can you give me a thread, be it ever so slight, out of which I may weave a hope that some time you will bend, and sanctify my life by becoming my wife?
gpt
O! my king!
human
Is it true? Is it true? Do you really care for me?
gpt
O, my blind darling, you are so very, very blind! My soul has been calling to your soul since the first hour you came.
human
Do you know, dearest, I believe all my heavy-heartedness is gone.
gpt
My beautiful, what will your friends say to your marrying a rough miner?
human
What, replied she,
gpt
My adored one!
human
My love, if happily our lives shall be united, whom will it be for, our friends or ourselves? I will tell you. If ever I shall be permitted to become so blessed as to be your wife, it will be with the thought in my heart that we are all in all to each other in this world, and in the world to come.
gpt
In this world and in the world to come, he repeated; and then, with bowed head, in a whisper, he added:
human
May I be worthy of such a blessing, and God spare to me my idol, that I may praise Him evermore.