human
Good gracious! I exclaimed,
gpt
For heaven's sake! I went on,
human
Well! I never heard of such impudence! That coughing has disturbed me for some time. Anybody would think you'd got into an almshouse for old women--Where is the sugar?
gpt
Up there, in the cigar-box. But don't knock that rapier down.
human
Confound you, do take care. Didn't I warn you?
gpt
Herr Reif, I must really beg you to be quiet, called my landlady's daughter, not by any means in her sweetest tones.
human
We've been kept awake for the last hour.
gpt
That's nothing to us,
human
Do be quiet! That is my landlady's daughter, a very respectable girl--
gpt
Well, is nobody respectable except her? What do you pay rent for? His face grew red with rage, and, placing his mouth close to the door, he called out,
human
What do you want with Reif? He's in bed. I only wanted to reach down the sugar, and the old rapier fell on my head--a thing that might happen to anybody! Just lie down quietly and go to sleep. Such a fuss about nothing! Are we in a hospital?
gpt
IT GAVE WAY!
human
Do be quiet, Balder! I begged, and my pleading at least had the effect of silencing whatever else was on his tongue. He thought no more of the sugar, but sat at the table and drank his self-brewed coffee without it. When he had finished it he lighted a cigarette, at which he puffed away till the room was full of smoke. As I lay and looked at him, I fell into that peaceful state in which dreaming and reality are so much mixed that it is hard to distinguish between them. And then Balder disappeared in clouds of smoke, and I heard and saw no more. I was awakened again by a light being held near my face. Balder was standing at my bedside with the candle in his hand.
gpt
Ah! I'm glad you've been asleep again! he said, as I half-opened my eyes and looked at him.
human
I want to make a poem to my Spaniard. Have you got a rhyming dictionary anywhere about?
gpt
There, on the lowest shelf of the bookcase, but _do_ be quiet.
human
Where shall I meet thee? On the Guadelquiver? On the Sequara? On the fair Zucar?
gpt
Or any other far-off Spanish river.....