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ventures.
gpt
What! he wants the Dalzells to take him on? What for? Errand-boy? That's all he's good for. But I'm afraid two dollars and a half a week won't buy him many china beetles! When Blair essayed a broker's office she even made an ancient joke to her superintendent:
human
If Blair could buy himself for what he is worth to Haines, and sell himself for what he thinks he's worth, he might make a fair profit,--and pick up some more old masters.
gpt
That's what I want to know! she used to tell Mr. Ferguson, who was silent. He did not want to know anything about Blair; all he cared for was to help his girl bear the burden of her folly. He called it
human
now, and Miss White used to nod her old head in melancholy agreement. It was only to Robert Ferguson that Mrs. Maitland betrayed her constant anxiety about her son; and it was that anxiety which made her keenly sensitive to Elizabeth's deepening depression. For as the excitement of sacrifice and punishment wore off, and the strain of every-day living began to tell, Elizabeth's depression was very marked. She was never angry now--she had not the energy for anger; and she was never unkind to Blair; perhaps her own pain made her pitiful of his. But she was always, as Cherry-pie expressed it,
gpt
Mrs. Maitland, watching her, wondered if she was moody because funds were getting low. How intensely she hoped that was the reason!
human
I reckon that money of hers is coming to an end, she used to think, triumphantly--for she had known, through Nannie, just when Blair had reached the point at which he had been obliged to use his wife's capital. Whenever she saw Elizabeth--who for want of anything better to do came constantly to see Nannie: she would drop a word or two which she thought might go back to her son:
gpt
We need an extra hand in the office. Or:
human
How would Blair like to travel for the Works? We can always take on a traveling man.
gpt
Be nice to Mamma. Do come and see her. Everything will be all right again if you will only come and see her!
human
If she alters her will, he said, briefly,
gpt
I will alter my behavior. She's not my mother so long as she casts off her son.