human
For Heaven's sake! Thurnall, calm yourself, and do not swear so frightfully; it is so unlike you! What can have upset you thus?
gpt
Why should I not curse and swear in the street, gasped he,
human
Is it possible? How did you find this out?
gpt
Mrs. Heale had been in, listening to their howling, just before she was taken. Heale went in when I turned him out of doors; came home raving mad, and is all but blue now. Three cases of women have I had this morning, all frightened into cholera, by their own confession, by last night's tomfoolery.--Came home howling, fainted, and were taken before morning. One is dead, the other two will die. You must stop it, or I shall have half-a-dozen more to-night. Go into the meeting, and curse the cur to his face!
human
I cannot, cried Frank, with a gesture of despair,
gpt
I cannot!
human
Ah, your cloth forbids you, I suppose, to enter the non-conformist opposition shop.
gpt
You are unjust, Thurnall! What are such rules at a moment like this? I'd break them, and the bishop would hold me guiltless. But I cannot speak to these people. I have no eloquence--no readiness--they do not trust me--would not believe me--God help me!
human
Not that, for Heaven's sake! said Tom,