human
I will arrest these miscreants with my own proper hand and with my own people, he said,
gpt
he continued to himself,
human
May it please your worship, said Grasp,
gpt
You have already both astonished and somewhat grieved us, said Sir Thomas,
human
Sir Hugh Clopton, said Grasp,
gpt
I did so, said Sir Thomas.
human
Said I not well, good Master Grasp?
gpt
Your worship hath the gift of saying well, returned Grasp, who found himself gaining ground, he thought, in Sir Thomas's good graces.
human
But I grieve to say that Sir Hugh lieth under the imputation of being deeply implicated in this plot.
gpt
How! said Sir Thomas, losing something of austerity in his surprise.
human
Sir Hugh Clopton implicated in such a hellish conspiracy as this you have named? Had any man holding rank equal or superior to mine own, said so much, Master Pouncet Grasp, he had lied under the imputation of a liar and a caitiff at my hands.
gpt
Nay, said Grasp,
human
I ask your worship's pardon, I had it from him who gave me the clue to the whole matter,--the honourable gentleman I told you of,--the right honourable Master Walter Neville.
gpt
Say, rather, the arch traitor--the doubly dishonourable villain Neville, who goeth about to purchase benefit for himself by the blood of his party. An such a man be your informant? Credit me, the information is incorrect. I listen not therefore to it, it is naught.