human
You are en route for America? So am I--we will be comrades,
gpt
With all my heart! Yes, I go to join the army. I shall either find fame or death in the American war.
human
Bah! I go to court the jade Fortune. She has jilted me of late. I would feed my wrinkled purse with American dollars, _ma foi!_ that purse is famishing just now.
gpt
You are not pure French?
human
rasped monsieur, with a shrug.
gpt
I am cosmopolite, yes.
human
Where is your birthplace?
gpt
The Hungary, _mon ami_. Have been in Vienna, in Geneva, in Turin, and for the rest--everywheres.
human
You omit England?
gpt
Ah, I did not live in England. I saw it, no more.
human
Yet you speak English well.
gpt
I am flattered. I have the habitude of the languages; they count me an expert. Insisted on giving me the post of Professor of the modern languages in the University of Berlin.
human
But it was not as a knight of the ferule that you won this mark of distinction?
gpt
he concluded;
human
I play, chevalier. I am at your service,