human
I could not but note your manner to me yesterday in the library, Miss Wallen, and indeed on several previous occasions, and in spite of it I venture to ask you to listen patiently to me for a moment. My object is such as to entitle my words to your respect, not resentment. It is for your own sake, your mother's, your name, that I brave your indignation again.
gpt
If it is to repeat what you intimated the other day, Mr. Elmendorf, said the girl, in low, firm tone,
human
I refuse to listen. You have no right to speak in such a way.
gpt
I have the right to try and save a poor girl from fatal error. I have devoted the best years of my life to the cause of the poor as against the rich, the down-trodden against the purse-proud. I should not have presumed to speak to you on such a subject had I not heard your name lightly, slightingly used among these very satraps whom Mr. Forrest hails as companions,--comrades. It is to protect you from the misjudgment, the censure of others that I strive to warn you. Pardon me if I recall to you that it was partially, at least, on my recommendation that you were given the position at the library, and that now my name as your endorser is measurably involved. Of course if after what I have to say you persist in receiving Mr. Forrest's--attentions, as we will call them, you must do so at your own risk.
human
Mr. Elmendorf, I have told you that there is no truth whatever in these reports.
gpt
I do not say there is. It is to warn you of the scandalous, outrageous things these people in so-called high society say of people who are in humbler walks of life that I ventured to relate what I'd heard. It is to obviate the possibility of them in future.
human
I have told you, Mr. Elmendorf, that I need no such warning, that I will listen to no such affront. I refuse to believe that any gentleman of Mr. Forrest's set has spoken ill of me. I know none of them, they know nothing of me.
gpt
Knew nothing, perhaps, until your name became linked with his,--how, said he, with significant shrug of his shoulders,
human
I know not, unless he himself has boyishly boasted of----
gpt
I will hear no more of this, either now or hereafter,