human
It is as I feared and suspected. The sly minx has made a fool of you, and you will be insane enough to marry her; but she does not love you. She only angled for you because you are rich! She had a lover in Richmond, poor like herself, whom she threw over as soon as she found she had a chance to win you. Already he has followed her here, and they have had two secret meetings in the grounds at twilight. Even the servants are gossiping about it.
gpt
It is a hellish falsehood!
human
Do you say so? Then here are the proofs--the notes she lost, that were picked up by a servant, and brought to me. Read them, and be convinced!
gpt
Read them!
human
Do you forget I am an Ellsworth--a descendant of that grand old race whose motto is: 'Honor before everything'?
gpt
Well?
human
Do you think that an Ellsworth--a born Ellsworth, I mean, not one by the accident of marriage, like you--could stoop to the meanness of invading another person's private correspondence? It is the act of a hound, not a gentleman! No; I will not read these papers; but I will restore them to their owner, and she shall explain or not, as she will, the foul aspersion you have cast upon her honor in declaring she has another lover. I trust in her as I do in Heaven!
gpt
ALL THAT'S BRIGHT MUST FADE.
human
I believe my faith in thee Strong as my life, so nobly placed to be; I would as soon expect to see the sun Fall like a dead king from his height sublime, His glory stricken from the throne of time, As thee unworth the worship thou hast won.