human
George--I'd like to look at Emerson's addresses--the Phi Beta Kappa Address particularly. He nosed up to the shelves and went peering along the books in sets.
gpt
Help yourself, Dad, help yourself--Glad you like Emerson--elegant piece of goods; wrapped one up last week and took it home myself--elegant piece of goods.
human
Yes, mused the reader,
gpt
added Amos, as he turned the pages of his book,
human
The old man sighed, and continued:
gpt
Poor Lincoln--I couldn't get him last night: they say he and Garrison were having a great row about the situation.
human
George--did you ever hear our Kenyon play?
gpt
Well, sir, the elder reflected:
human
Now, it's queer about Kenyon. He's getting to be a wonder. I don't know--it all puzzles me. He rose, put back the book on its shelf.
gpt
Sometimes I believe I'm a fool--and sometimes things like this bother me. They say they are training Kenyon--on the other side! Of course he just has what music Laura and Mrs. Nesbit could give him; yet the other day, he got hold of a piano score of Schubert's Symphony in B flat and while he can't play it, he just sits and cries over it--it means so much to the little fellow.
human
He is going ahead, making up the most wonderful music--it seems to me, and writing it down when he can't play it--writing the whole score for it--and they tell me-- he explained deprecatingly,
gpt
He paused and asked:
human
George--you're a hardheaded man--what do you think of it? You don't think I'm crazy, do you, George?
gpt
Dad, said Mr. Brotherton, hammering his fat fist on the desk,
human
Mr. Brotherton shuddered,
gpt
I'd die if one came gliding up to me and asked for a chew of my eating tobacco--the way they do with you!
human
Well, smiled Amos Adams,
gpt
the old man scratched his chin,
human
Laura and Bedelia Nesbit are just as likely to be fooled in music as I am with my controls.
gpt
I wonder--I wonder if the country ever will come to see the economic and social and political meaning of this politics that we have now--this politics that the poor man gets through a beer keg the night before election, and that the rich man buys with his 'barl.'
human
You'll see it--you and Grant--but it will be long after my time. Amos lifted up his old face and cried:
gpt
I know there is another day coming--a better day. For this one is unworthy of us. We are better than this--at heart! We have in us the blood of the fathers, and their high visions too. And they did not put their lives into this nation for this--for this cruel tangle of injustice that we show the world to-day. Some day--some day, Amos Adams lifted up his face and cried:
human
I don't know! May be my guides are wrong but my own heart tells me that some day we shall cease feeding with the swine and return to the house of our father! For we are of royal blood, George--of royal blood!
gpt
Why, hello, Morty, cut in Mr. Brotherton.
human
Come right in and listen to the seer--genuine Hebrew prophet here--got a familiar spirit, and says Babylon is falling.
gpt
Well, Uncle Amos, said Morty Sands,