human
We'll have to guard everything, it was saying.
gpt
There won't be a thing we can leave without watching.... I know.... These German spies and German sympathizers.... Oh, I hate myself for the German blood in my veins.
human
Now, Hildegarde, that's no way to talk. I'm sure your father is as good a citizen as if his ancestors had come over in the _Mayflower_--
gpt
Instead of the North German Lloyd, Hildegarde replied.
human
This talk of Mr. Wilson's about our having no quarrel with the German people is _wrong_. It isn't just the Kaiser. It's the breed. We want to forget that sort of nonsense. We'll find we're fighting the German people--and what kind we're fighting. With their crucifixions and massacres and abominations.
gpt
Hildegarde!
human
Oh, father knows what I think. And it's true. I've lived among them all my life. We used to think they were merely crude, with bad manners.... It wasn't that.... They're savage. They never even had a decent veneer of civilization.
gpt
Well, said the lady with Hildegarde,
human
I'm no German-American. There isn't any such thing. There are Americans and traitors. You can't sit on the fence.