human
Ach! she said;
gpt
she looked with the other sympathetically watering eye at her son.
human
Here, take this thing out.
gpt
Blair said, dismayed.
human
Oh, I might hurt you. Then, in his helplessness and concern--for, ignorant as he was, he knew enough of the Works to know that an iron filing in your eye is no joke--he turned, with a flurried gesture, to one of the molders.
gpt
Get a doctor, can't you? Don't stand there staring!
human
Doctor? said Mrs. Maitland. She gave her son a look, and laughed.
gpt
He's afraid he'll hurt me! she said, with a warm joyousness in her voice;
human
Jim, got a jack-knife? Just dig this thing out. Jim came, dirty and hesitating, but prepared for a very common emergency of the Works. With a black thumb and forefinger he raised the wincing lid, and with the pointed blade of the jack-knife lifted, with delicacy and precision, the irritating iron speck from the eyeball.
gpt
Mrs. Maitland said. She clapped a rather grimy handkerchief over the poor red eye, and turned to Blair.
human
Come on! she said, and struck him on the shoulder so heartily that he stumbled. Her cheek was blackened by the molder's greasy fingers, and so smeared with tears from the still watering eye that he could not bear to look at it. He hesitated, then offered her his handkerchief, which at least had the advantage of being clean. She took it, glanced at its elaborate monogram, and laughed; then she dabbed her eye with it.
gpt
I guess I'll have to put some of that cologne of yours on this fancy thing. Remember that green bottle with the calendar and the red ribbons on it, that you gave me when you were a little fellow? I've never had anything of my own fine enough to use the stuff on!
human
You can keep all this that you have seen in your mind. I don't know just where I shall put you. If you have a preference, express it.
gpt
Now, clear out, clear out! she said;
human
Good-by, Mother. It has been awfully interesting. And I am awfully obliged to you about the allowance. On the threshold of the office he halted.
gpt
Mother, he said,--and his voice was generous even to wistfulness;
human
Mother, that cradle thing was stunning.
gpt
Ask Mr. Ferguson to step here. When her superintendent took the chair beside her desk, she was all business; but when business was over and he got up, she stopped him:
human
Tell the bookkeeper to double Blair's allowance, beginning to-day.
gpt
And Mr. Ferguson, I have told Blair that I consent to his engagement with Elizabeth, and I shall make it possible for them to be married as soon as he graduates--
human
But--
gpt
I do this, she went on, her satisfaction warm in her voice,
human
In the first place, said Robert Ferguson,
gpt
I would not permit Elizabeth to marry Blair; but fortunately we need not discuss that. They have quarreled, and there is no longer any question of such a thing.
human
Quarreled! but only this morning, not an hour ago, he let me suppose-- She paused.
gpt
Well, I'm sorry. She paused again, and made aimless marks with her pen on the blotter.
human
That's all this morning, Mr. Ferguson.
gpt
Take this handkerchief up to the house to my son, she said;