human
As I said a while ago, he remarked,
gpt
Browning falls short of being a poet, just as a marble-cutter falls short of being a sculptor. You were quoting _Love Among the Ruins_, as the train stopped at Elm Springs Junction; or was it _Evelyn_----
human
Why, Judge Blodgett! exclaimed Amidon,
gpt
Can it be I? exclaimed the judge.
human
Can it be me! No difficulty about that. Never mind the handshaking just yet--after a while, maybe. When it comes to the can-it-be part, how about you? How about the past five years, and Jennie Baggs keeping a place for you every meal for all this time, up to the present hour? I tell you, Florian, letting me down in that case of Amidon versus Cattermole, without a scrap of evidence, and getting me licked by a young practitioner who studied in my office, was bad--was damnable; but an only sister, Florian! and not one word in five years!
gpt
She's well, then, Jennie is?
human
She's as well, Florian, as a woman with the sorrow you've brought to her, and the mother of two infants, can be. But why do you ask?--why do you ask?--why is it necessary to go through the work of surplusage of asking?
gpt
Children, eh? said Florian.
human
Good for Jennie! And how's Baggs?
gpt
Oh, Baggs, yes--why, Baggs has come through it all with his health about unimpaired, Baggs has! But no Baggs court of inquiry is going to switch me off the examination I'm now conducting; and I tell you, Mr. Amidon, you can't dodge me. What double life took you away from home, and property, and everything?
human
Judge Blodgett, said Mr. Amidon, in that low voice which, with the English language as the medium of communication, is known as the danger-signal the world over,
gpt
Well, well, Florian, said the judge, evidently pleased,
human
Judge, said Amidon, after a long pause,
gpt
Now I have found a way, said Amidon,
human
Complications, eh? said the judge.
gpt
Well, well! Let us see!