human
Reading in a general way, and if you don't take too much of it, is a fine thing, he continued.
gpt
The difficulty is to keep the volumes separate in your head. Anybody can write a book. I've written columns enough in the _Clearville Roarer_ for a dozen books; but it takes a man to read one.
human
Ah, but it is different with you, said Phillis.
gpt
I am only in words of two syllables. I've just got through the first reading-book. 'The cat has drunk up all the milk.' I suppose I must go on with it, but I think it is better to have some one to read for you. I am sure Jack would read for me whenever I asked him.
human
I never thought of that, said Gilead Beck.
gpt
Why not keep a clerk to read for you, and pay out the information in small chunks? I should like to tackle Mr. Carlyle that way.
human
Agatha is reading a novel to me now, Phillis went on.
gpt
There is a girl in it; but somehow I think my own life is more interesting than hers. She belongs to a part of the country where the common people say clever things!--Oh, very clever things!--and she herself says all sorts of clever things.
human
Mr. Dunquerque, interrupted Gilead Beck, who was not listening,