human
I saw how royally you put it through. I could see you standing there on the porch, looking back to the river. I've wanted several things rather badly in my life, but I doubt if I've ever wanted anything much worse than to know what you were saying. And then with my own two eyes I saw the miracle: Saw her--the girl who had just had all the concentrated passion of the Her of the world--turn and follow you into the house. It was a blow to me! Oh 'twas an awful blow.
gpt
Why a blow?
human
In the first place that you should want to, and then that you should be able to. My philosophy gives you of the sunny paths no such desire nor power.
gpt
Showing, she deduced quickly and firmly,
human
Oh no; showing that the much toasted Miss Katherine Jones is too big for mere sunny paths. Showing that she has a latent ambition to climb a mountain in a storm.