human
The mighty tyrants without cause Conspire her blood to shed!
gpt
I did not think you had so good a memory, Corporal, said Peter smiling;--the cat was now curling itself up in his lap:
human
Gentle as a lamb--soft as butter--kind as cream--and such a mouser!
gpt
But I don't think Dorothy--
human
I'll settle Dorothy.
gpt
Well, when will you look up?
human
Come and take a dish of tay with you in half an hour;--you want a new tay-chest; something new and genteel.
gpt
I think we do,
human
Aha! we'll see to it!--we'll see! Good b'ye for the present--in half an hour be with you!
gpt
Well, Jacobina! you little know the pains I takes to serve you--the lies I tells for you--endangered my precious soul for your sake, you jade! Ah! may well rub your sides against me. Jacobina! Jacobina! you be the only thing in the world that cares a button for me. I have neither kith nor kin. You are daughter--friend--wife to me: if any thing happened to you, I should not have the heart to love any thing else. Any body o' me, but you be as kind as any mistress, and much more tractable than any wife; but the world gives you a bad name, Jacobina. Why? Is it that you do worse than the world do? You has no morality in you, Jacobina; well, but has the world?--no! But it has humbug--you have no humbug, Jacobina. On the faith of a man, Jacobina, you be better than the world!--baugh! You takes care of your own interest, but you takes care of your master's too!--You loves me as well as yourself. Few cats can say the same, Jacobina! and no gossip that flings a stone at your pretty brindled skin, can say half as much. We must not forget your kittens, Jacobina;--you have four left--they must be provided for. Why not a cat's children as well as a courtier's? I have got you a comfortable home, Jacobina--take care of yourself, and don't fall in love with every Tomcat in the place. Be sober, and lead a single life till my return. Come, Jacobina, we will lock up the house, and go and see the quarters I have provided for you.-- Heigho!