human
No, I have not a chance--not a chance! at length he thought to himself--
gpt
That girl will be prouder in her poverty, than ever she would have been in her wealth and splendor. Who am I?--a partner in the firm of Quirk, Gammon, and Snap; a firm in bad odor with the profession; looking for practice from polluted sources, with a host of miscreants for clients--faugh! faugh! I feel contaminated and degraded! My name even is against me; it is growing into a by-word!--We must push our advantage--they must be driven from Yatton--he, she--all of them; yes, all. He paused for a long time, and a sort of pang passed through his mind.
human
They are to make way for--Titmouse!--for Titmouse!! And he, too, loves her--_bah!_ He involuntarily uttered this sound fiercely, and aloud.
gpt
But stay--he really is in love with Miss Aubrey--that I know;--ah! I can turn it to good purpose; it will give me, by the way, a hold upon the little fool; I will make him believe that through my means he may obtain Miss Aubrey! Misery may make her accessible; I can easily bring myself into contact with them, in their distress; for there are the mesne profits--_the mesne profits!_ Heavens! how glorious, but how dreadful an engine are _they_! They will help to batter down the high wall of pride that surrounds _them_ and _her_; but it will require infinite care and tact in the use of such an engine! I will be all delicacy--gentleness--generosity; I will appear friendly to her, and to her brother; and, if needs must be, why he must be _crushed_. There is no help for it. He looks decidedly, by the way--a man of intellect. I wonder how he bears it--how they all bear it--how _she_ bears it! _Beggared beauty_--there's something touching in the very sound! How little they think of the power that is at this moment in my hands! Here a long interval elapsed, during which his thoughts had wandered towards more practical matters.
human
If they don't get a rule _nisi_, next term, we shall be in a position to ask them what course they intend to pursue: Gad, they may, if so disposed, hold out for--how very cold it is! --he buttoned his coat--
gpt
The moment has arrived, dear Agnes and Kate, said Mr. Aubrey, with a fond air but a firm voice, as his sister was preparing tea, in silence, fearful of looking at either her brother or sister-in-law;
human
I'm sure I thought of you both almost all night long! replied Miss Aubrey, tremulously.
gpt
You have a lion's heart, dear Charles; and yet you are so gentle with us
human
I should be a poor creature indeed, Kate, to give way just when I ought to play the man. Come, dear Kate, I will remind you of a noble passage from our glorious Shakespeare. It braces one's nerves to hear it!
gpt
In the reproof of chance Lies the true proof of men. The sea being smooth How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast, making their way With those of nobler bulk? But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, Bounding between the two moist elements Like Perseus' horse; where's then the saucy boat, Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now Co-rivall'd greatness? Either to harbor fled, Or made a toast for Neptune!--Even so, Doth valor's show, and valor's worth divide, In storms of fortune.