human
Little marplot! Had you shown less concern for the fate of your Englishman, it would have been vastly better. You do but cast obstacles in my way. There is nothing for me to do now but hotly to oppose his leaving! If needs must I will pretend a liking for the man myself, and vow to hold him as my guest yet a while longer, for the sake of his pretty wit and his gallant bearing,--any device to throw dust in their eyes, so that we seem not to be of the same minds and putting up the selfsame plea. Oh! little saint with the blue eyes, your _métier_ is not diplomacy!
gpt
In sooth, señora, till you first taught me to dissemble I was unlessoned in the art.
human
If the little Margarita believed Melinza's pretty fable about Habana, and the excellent company there which his _wife_ would enjoy, 'tis no wonder that she made a tangle of her own little web.
gpt
But Doña Orosia, think you he would deal unfairly with me? His words rang so true--even a bad man may love honestly! And if I trifle with the one saving virtue in his heart, will it not be a grievous sin?