human
Is this the guide by which I am to regulate my conduct in Bellevale?
gpt
Well, said the judge,
human
I suppose I'm to carry it with me, and when an acquaintance accosts me on the street, I'm to look him up in the index and find out who he is, before I decide whether to shake hands with him or cut him, am I?
gpt
Not exactly that way, said the judge;
human
Te tifision into gategories, broke in the professor,
gpt
Has it any plan of reference, interrupted Amidon,
human
N--no.
gpt
Or, in such a case, to give me knowledge of my past relations with him, or whether I like him or hate him?
human
Of course, said the judge,
gpt
Does this thing, said Amidon, shaking it in evident disgust,
human
Damn it, Florian! said the judge,
gpt
I'm not here to be jumped on, am I? No one can remember everything all the time. We'll get those things and put them into a supplement, you know.
human
Not for me, said Florian.
gpt
I've made up my mind definitely about this. I'll not depend on it. If I go back to Bellevale, I must have at hand at all times the means of connecting things as I find them with the life of this Brassfield. I must take with me the bridge which spans the chasm between Brassfield and Amidon--I mean our friend Clara. Without her, I shall never go back. I haven't the nerve. I should soon find myself in a tangle of mistakes from which I could never extricate myself--I've thought it all out. The Cretan Labyrinth would be like going home from school, in comparison.
human
Pshaw! said the judge, looking lovingly at Blodgett's _Notes on the Compiled Statements of Brassfield_,
gpt
Would you go into the trial of a case, said Florian,
human
Then, said he, as if he had only just made up his mind to concede the point,
gpt
I think, said Amidon slowly,
human
Alone, yes--yes! said the judge, changing an interjection into an assent.
gpt
By all means; by all means. Only don't you think there may be things down there needing attention, Florian--money matters--and--and other things, you know, my boy--and that we ought to be moving in the matter? I would respectfully urge, he concluded, using his orator's chest-tones to drown Amidon's protest against his joking,