human
Mary, said he,
gpt
Dear Robert!
human
I must tell you one thing, continued he.
gpt
You will not be sorry, Mary?
human
Why should I be sorry, my child?
gpt
And you will let me do as I wish?
human
What do you mean?
gpt
My sister, I shall be a sailor----!
human
And leave me?
gpt
Yes, sister, I shall be a sailor, like my father, and like Captain John. Mary, my dear Mary, he has not lost all hope! You will have, like me, confidence in his devotion. He has promised that he will make me a thorough and efficient sailor, and we shall seek our father together. Say that you are willing, sister. What our father would have done for us it is our duty, or mine at least, to do for him. My life has but one object, to which it is wholly devoted,--to search always for him who would never have abandoned either of us. Dear Mary, how good our father was!
human
And so noble, so generous! added Mary.
gpt
Do you know, Robert, that he was already one of the glories of our country, and would have ranked among its great men if fate had not arrested his course?
human
How well I know it!
gpt
Mary! Mary! cried he,