human
My dear Gabrielle!
gpt
Oh! do leave me in peace, pray; I am not even at liberty to have my carriage to myself, now. He, however, pretended not to hear her, and continued:
human
You have never looked so pretty as you do to-day.
gpt
You are wrong to notice it, for I swear to you, that I will never have anything to do with you in that way again. He was decidedly stupefied and agitated, and his violent nature gaining the upper hand, he exclaimed:
human
What do you mean by that? in such a manner as revealed rather the brutal master, than the amorous man. But she replied in a low voice, so that the servants might not hear amidst the deafening noise of the wheels:
gpt
Ah! What do I mean by that? What do I mean by that? Now I recognize you again! Do you want me to tell everything?
human
Yes.
gpt
Everything that has been on my heart, since I have been the victim of your terrible selfishness?
human
Yes, tell me everything.
gpt
Ah! You will hear some disagreeable things, but you must know that I am prepared for everything, that I fear nothing, and you less than anyone, to-day.
human
You are mad.
gpt
No, but I will no longer be the victim of the hateful penalty of maternity, which you have inflicted on me for eleven years! I wish to live like a woman of the world, as I have a right to do, as all women have the right to do.
human
I do not understand you.
gpt
Oh! yes; you understand me well enough. It is now three months since I had my last child, and as I am still very beautiful, and as, in spite of all your efforts you cannot spoil my figure, as you just now perceived, when you saw me on the outside flight of steps, you think it is time that I should become pregnant again.
human
But you are talking nonsense!
gpt
No, I am not. I am thirty, and I have had seven children, and we have been married eleven years, and you hope that this will go on for ten years longer, after which you will leave off being jealous.