human
Oh, oh! said I,
gpt
I seized my dirk in my left hand, as I saw they held their swords, and I stuck my right hand into my bosom as some of them had done. I tried to imitate their erect and officer-like bearing; I put my cocked-hat on fore and aft, with the gold rosette dangling between my two eyes, so that in looking at it, which I could not help doing, I must have squinted. And I held my nose high in the air, like a pig in a hurricane, fancying myself as much an object of admiration to them as I was to myself. We passed on opposite tacks, and our respective velocities had separated us to the distance of twenty or thirty yards, when one of them called out to me in a voice evidently cracked in His Majesty's service--
human
Hello, young gentleman, come back here.
gpt
Pray, sir, what ship do you belong to?
human
Sir, said I, proud to be thus interrogated,
gpt
I belong to His Majesty's ship the _Le ---_
human
Oh, you do, do you? said the veteran, with an air of conscious superiority;
gpt
(imitating me);