human
Major, said he,
gpt
I wouldn't mention it under any other circumstances, but--I saved your life once?
human
You did, my boy. God bless you!
gpt
Well, now I want to ask a favor on the strength of that act. I'll never ask another. It's no use for me to try to write to her--the harder I try the more contemptible my words appear. Now, what I ask, is this: _you_ write me a rough draft of what's fit to send to such an incomparable being, and I'll copy it and send it over. I don't expect any answer--all I want to do is to throw myself away on her, but I want to do it handsomely, and--hang it, I don't know how. Write just as if you were doing it for yourself. Will you do it?