human
And so you think, Herr Reinhard, she said,
gpt
The brilliants are exquisitely becoming to you, replied Reinhard, smiling;
human
What! Reinhard, cried Miss Mertens,
gpt
Certainly, he replied;
human
Zounds! exclaimed the forester;
gpt
he continued more gently, and rested his arm upon his brother’s shoulder,
human
Heaven has been kind to you here. Did I not tell you that all would go smoothly with you in Thuringia, although I never dreamed that eight thousand thalers were waiting for you?
gpt
For me? cried Ferber with surprise.
human
Does it not all belong to you as the elder?
gpt
None of that! What, in Heaven’s name, should I do with the trash? Am I to begin to invest capital in my old days? I think I see myself at such work! I have neither chick nor child in the world, hold an excellent office,—and when my old bones fail me, there is a pension for me, which, try as I may, I shall never be able to spend. Therefore I resign my birthright in favour of the girl with the golden hair and Ernst, the rogue, who shall perpetuate our stock; I will not even have a mess of lentil pottage in exchange, for Sabina says it is not good with venison. Don’t touch me! he cried, with a comic gesture of refusal, clasping his hands behind him, as Frau Ferber, with tears in her eyes, came to him with outstretched arms, and his brother would have remonstrated with him.
human
It would be much better for you, sister-in-law, to go and see about our coffee. It is really past hearing! four o’clock and not a drop of the usual refreshments, for the sake of which I dragged myself up here.