human
I speak only for the child's--for Mary's sake. By my father's soul....
gpt
For the sake of that child I am capable of doing or enduring a great deal. She could not be better cared for than with Rufinus and Paula; but if I could suppose, and he raised his voice, while his eyes took a sinister and threatening expression,
human
My merit? retorted the other scornfully.
gpt
Merit is not in the balance; nothing but the gifts of blind Fortune--a nose, a chin, an eye, anything in short--a crime as much as a deed of heroism--that happens to make a deep impression on the wax of a girl's soft heart. But curse me, and he shouted the words at Orion as if he were beside himself,