human
Well, she exclaimed,
gpt
I never expected to go to heaven till I died; but I’ve been there.
human
Jack, added Robert meekly,
gpt
Say no more, returned Van Tassel, waving his hand grandiloquently.
human
We Chicagoans are nothing if not magnanimous.
gpt
I thought I knew what I was going to see, that is the queer part of it, said Page, looking perplexed;
human
You are in the first-day frame of mind, I see.
gpt
What is that?
human
Oh, eagerness and hopefulness.
gpt
And what is the second?
human
Despair; yes, overwhelming, stony despair.
gpt
What is the third? Suicidal tendency?
human
No indeed. Resignation. At first one expects and determines to see everything; soon finds that to be so impossible that he yields to his bewilderment, and at last accepts the inevitable and sets himself to see what he can, and be rapturously content therewith.
gpt
Thank you, thank you! Forewarned, forearmed. Perhaps we may even skip the second stage.