human
Well, he mused, as the fire burned,
gpt
I got 'em all their jobs, I got two or three good medical laws passed, and I hope I have made some people happy.
human
Yes, my dear, answered his wife.
gpt
In that year little Lila has come into short dresses, and Kenyon Adams has learned to play on the piano, and is taking up the violin.
human
How time has flown since election a year ago, said Captain Morton to his assembled family as they sat around the base burner smoldering in the dining-room.
gpt
And I've put the patent window fastener into forty houses and sold Henry Fenn the burglar alarm to go with his.
human
My good land, I hope we'll have a new principal by this time next year. Another year under that man will kill me--pa, I do wish you'd run for the school board.
gpt
My goodness, Emma Morton, if I didn't have anything to do but draw forty dollars every month for yanking a lot of little kids around and teaching them the multiplication tables, I wouldn't say much. Why, we've come through algebra into geometry and half way through Cicero, while you've been fussing with that old principal--and Mrs. Herdicker's got a new trimmer, and we girls down at the shop have to put up with her didoes. Talk of trouble, gee!
human
Martha, you make me weary, said the youngest Miss Morton, eating an apple.
gpt
If you'd had scarlet fever and measles the same year, and your old dress just turned and your same old hat, you'd have something to talk about.
human
Well, remarked His Honor the Mayor to Henry Fenn and Morty Sands as they sat in the Amen Corner New Year's eve, looking at the backs of a shelf of late books and viewing several shelves of standard sets with highly gilded backs,
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It's a whole year--and Pop's gone a long time without a wife; it'll be two years next March since the last one went over the hill who was brought out to make a home for little Morty, and I saw Dad peeking out of the hack window as we were standing waiting for the hearse, and wondered which one of the old girls present he'd pick on. But, mused Morty,
human
I guess it's Anne's eyes. Every time he edges around to the subject of our need of a mother, Anne turns her eyes on him and he changes the subject. Morty laughed quietly and added:
gpt
When Anne gets out of her 'teens she'll put father in a monastery!
human
Honeymoon's kind of waning--eh, Henry? asked Judge Van Dorn, who dropped in for a magazine and heard the conversation about the passing of the year. He added:
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I see you've been coming down here pretty regularly for three or four months! Henry looked up sadly and shook his head.
human
You can't break the habit of a dozen years. And I got to coming here back in the days when George ran a pool and billiard hall, and I suppose I'll come until I die, and then George will bring his wheezy old quartette around and sing over me, and probably act as pall-bearer too--if he doesn't read the burial service of the lodge in addition.
gpt
Well, a year's a year, said the suave Judge Van Dorn.
human
A year ago you boys were smoking on me as the new judge of this judicial district. All hail Thane of Cawdor-- He smiled his princely smile, taking every one in with his frank, bold eyes, and waved himself into the blustery night. There he met Mr. Calvin, who, owing to a turn matters had taken at home, was just beginning another long period of exile from the hearthstone. He walked the night like a ghost, silent and grim. His thin little neck, furrowed behind by the sunken road between his arteries, was adorned by two tufts of straggling hair, and as his overcoat collar was rolled and wrinkled, he had an appearance of extreme neglect and dejection.
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Did you realize that it's over a year since election? said Van Dorn.
human
We might as well begin looking out for next year, Joe, he added,