human
Cruel, unjust, ungrateful! ejaculated Walter, pale with rage, and trembling under the conflict of his roused and wounded feelings.
gpt
Is it thus you answer the warning of too disinterested and self-forgetful a love?
human
Love! exclaimed Madeline.
gpt
Grant me patience!--Love! It was but now I thought myself honoured by the affection you said you bore me. At this instant, I blush to have called forth a single sentiment in one who knows so little what love is! Love!--methought that word denoted all that was high and noble in human nature--confidence, hope, devotion, sacrifice of all thought of self! but you would make it the type and concentration of all that lowers and debases!--suspicion--cavil--fear--selfishness in all its shapes! Out on you--love!
human
Enough, enough! Say no more, Madeline, say no more. We part not as I had hoped; but be it so. You are changed indeed, if your conscience smite you not hereafter for this injustice. Farewell, and may you never regret, not only the heart you have rejected, but the friendship you have belied.