human
Of course, said this wise child,
gpt
If he doesn't like you, then I don't like him, said Philip, as if he were making a general and not a personal assertion.
human
Oh, I should like to travel.
gpt
So should I, and see things and find things. Jim says he's going to be an explorer. He never will. He wouldn't find anything. He twits me, and wants to know what is the good of my reading about Africa and such things. Phil, don't you love to read about Africa, and the desert, and the lions and the snakes, and bananas growing, and palm-trees, and the queerest black men and women, real dwarfs some of them? I just love it.
human
So do I, said Philip,
gpt
Of course you wouldn't. But it costs like everything to go to Africa, or anywhere.
human
I'd make a book about it, and give lectures, and make lots of money.
gpt
I guess, said Celia, reflecting upon this proposition,
human
I'd be an engineer or a railroad man, or something like that, and make a heap of money, and then I could go anywhere I liked. I just hate to be poor. There!
gpt
Is Jim poor?
human
No; he can do what he pleases. I asked him, then, why he didn't go to Africa, and he wanted to know what was the good of finding Livingstone, anyway. I'll bet Murad Ault would go to Africa.
gpt
I wish he would, said Philip; and then, having moved so that he could see Celia's face,
human
Do you like Murad Ault?
gpt
No, replied Celia, promptly;
human
Well, I don't care,
gpt
You don't think I'd be seen going around with him? Aren't we having a good time up here?
human
Bully!
gpt
Celia, the next time I go on our hill I'll get you lots of sassafras.
human
Oh, I love sassafras, and sweet-flag!
gpt
We can get that on the way home. I know a place. And then there was a pause.
human
Celia, you didn't tell me what you are going to do when you grow up.
gpt
Go to college.
human
You? Why, girls do, don't they? I never thought of that.
gpt
Of course they do. I don't know whether I'll write or be a doctor. I know one thing--I won't teach school. It's the hatefulest thing there is! It's nice to be a doctor and have your own horse, and go round like a man. If it wasn't for seeing so many sick people! I guess I'll write stories and things.
human
So would I, Philip confessed,
gpt
Why, you make 'em up. Mamma says they are all made up. I can make 'em in my head any time when I'm alone.
human
I don't know, Philip said, reflectively,
gpt
Oh, that wouldn't be a real story. You have got to have different people in it, and have 'em talk, just as they do in books; and somebody is in love and somebody dies, and the like of that.
human
Well, there are such stories in The Pirate's Own Book, and it's awful interesting.
gpt
I'd be ashamed, Philip Burnett, to read such a cruel thing, all about robbers and murders.
human
I didn't read it through; Alice said she was going to burn it up. I shouldn't wonder if she did.
gpt
Boys make me tired! exclaimed this little piece of presumption; and this attitude of superiority exasperated Philip more than anything else his mentor had said or done, and he asserted his years of seniority by jumping up and saying, decidedly,
human
It's time to go home. Shall I carry your wreath?
gpt
No, I thank you!
human
Down in the meadow, said Philip, making one more effort at conciliation,
gpt
She doesn't like things fussed up,
human
boy may become a man of force, of learning, of decided capacity, even of polish and good manners, and score success, so that those who know him say how remarkable it is that such a
gpt
lad should have turned out so well. But some exigency in his career, it may be extraordinary prosperity or bitter defeat, may at any moment reveal the radical traits of the boy, the original ignoble nature. The world says that it is a
human
The peasant nature, which may be a very different thing from the peasant condition, persists, and shows itself in business affairs, in literature, even in the artist. No marriage is wisely contracted without consideration of