human
And I need not ask, said I, trying in vain to conceal my indignation,
gpt
And if we had not arrived, what would you have done? Oh, dare you look into the gulf of infamy you have escaped!
human
I cannot and I will not bear this! exclaimed Vivian, starting up.
gpt
I have laid my heart bare before you, and it is ungenerous and unmanly thus to press upon its wounds. You can moralize, you can speak coldly; but--I--I loved!
human
And do you think, I burst forth,
gpt
Hush! he cried;
human
It was love! And I pray Heaven to grant that, one day, you may know how little your affection sprang from those feelings which make true love sublime as honor, and meek as is religion! Oh, cousin, cousin, with those rare gifts, what you might have been; what, if you will pass through repentance and cling to atonement, what, I dare hope, you may yet be! Talk not now of your love; I talk not of mine! Love is a thing gone from the lives of both. Go back to earlier thoughts, to heavier wrongs,--your father, that noble heart which you have so wantonly lacerated, which you have so little comprehended!
gpt
Spare me, spare me! I see it all now, wretch that I have been!