human
Well, there's one thing damn sure, I'll not live with you any more--no man would respect me if I did after to-night.
gpt
And no man, she smiled and said in her mocking voice,
human
I will leave you, I tell you, I will leave you, he burst forth, half rising.
gpt
All the devils of hell can't keep me here.
human
Except just this one, she mocked.
gpt
Oh, you might leave me and go with your present mistress! By the way, who is our latest conquest--dawling? I'm sure that would be fine. Wouldn't they cackle--the dear old hens whose claws scratch your heart so every day? She leaned over, caressing him devilishly, and cried,
human
For you know when you get loose from me, you'll pretty nearly have to marry the other lady--wouldn't that be nice? 'Through sickness and health, for good or for ill,'--isn't it nice? she scoffed. Then she turned on him savagely,
gpt
So you will try to hide behind a child, and use him for a shield--Oh, you cur--you despicable dog, she scorned. Then she drew herself up and spoke in a passion that all but hissed at him.
human
I tell you, Tom Van Dorn, if you ever, in this row that's coming, harm a hair of that boy's head--you'll carry the scar of that hair to your grave. I mean it.
gpt
What business is it of yours? You she devil, what's the boy to you? Can't I run my own business? Why do you care so much for the Adams brat? Answer me, I tell you--answer me,
human
Oh, nothing, dawling, she made a wicked, obscene eye at him, and simpered:
gpt
Oh, nothing, Tom--only you see I might be his mother!
human
Great God, he whispered,
gpt
Whatever I am, I'm the wife of Judge Van Dorn; so I'm quite respectable now--whatever I was once. Isn't that lawvly, dawling!