human
I thank you, Mr. Alison, he said;
gpt
I thank you even for that confession. Your heart speaks better than your lips, and in spite of all, we can no longer be enemies.
human
We cannot? You seem to forget that we are not of one origin. According to your German sentimentality, we ought now to fall into each other's arms, and swear eternal friendship. I am constituted otherwise; if I hate, I hate until my last breath; and I hate you, Lieutenant Fernow, because you have robbed me of the one dearest to me in the whole world. Do not believe that I release you from your promise to meet me at the end of the war, or that I will then spare you; do not believe that Jane Forest can ever belong to you. I hold you fast to your word, and to your oath, and if she is to die of this love for you, she shall still be my wife!
gpt
I did not think of that, he said softly,
human
I only wished to thank you; but you are right, Mr. Alison; we two are differently constituted, we shall never understand each other.--Farewell,--I must go on!
gpt
You must go on? asked Alison in astonishment.
human
Not further into the mountain! You must have seen how unsafe it is; the French sharpshooters are everywhere.
gpt
I know it. Their main body lies an hour's distance from here. But I must force my way through, if it is possible.
human
Alone? Wounded? Has this attack not shown you the impossibility of such a step?
gpt
This very attack gives me courage. It came from below; the French patrols avoid the mountain-road; my way is clear.
human
Hardly! You rush on to your destruction, Lieutenant Fernow.
gpt
Well, then, replied Walter, while the old melancholy smile flitted over his face,
human
I have nothing more to seek in the mountains, he said;
gpt
I will go back immediately.
human
I thank you, and now--farewell!
gpt
There he goes, right into the midst of the enemy, with that calmness and those eyes before which mine almost fell. Oh, this German! --he clinched his hands in savage fury.
human
I can force her to be my wife, but her heart will never forget him; it cannot,--I understand that!