human
I don't like you to cry, the child said softly;
gpt
Oh, but she's worth ten times that!
human
What is it?
gpt
It's five million dollars--for Nancy, she said.
human
Five-million--what?
gpt
The stake, Jim, said Sally.
human
If you did not drink for four years-- never touched a drop--we were to have five million dollars.
gpt
You never told him, then--you never told him that?
human
I wanted him to win without it, she said.
gpt
If he won, he would be the stronger; if he lost, it would not be so hard for him to bear.
human
You are a wonder--the tenth wonder of the world!
gpt
Five millions--five million dollars!
human
I said Nancy's worth ten times that, Jim. The old man caught his hand and pressed it.
gpt
But it was a damned near thing, I tell you, he added.
human
They tried to break me and my railways and my bank. I had to fight the combination, and there was one day when I hadn't that five million dollars there, nor five. Jim, they tried to break the old man. And if they'd broken me, they'd have made me out a scoundrel to her--to this wife of yours who risked everything for both of us, for both of us, Jim; for she'd given up the world to save you, and she was playing like a soul in Hell for Heaven. If they'd broken me, I'd never have lifted my head again. When things were at their worst I played to save that five millions,--her stake and mine,--I played for that. I fought for it as a man fights his way out of a burning house. And I won--I won. And it was by fighting for that five millions I saved fifty--fifty millions, son. They didn't break the old man, Jim. They didn't break him--not much.
gpt
There are giants in the world still,