human
And he offered me a partnership. The big man's voice was husky now, as, in a little outburst with a good deal of bitterness in it, he spoke of the glory of the work of which he and Joe had once been a part. He seemed appealing to Joe's wife to see, for God's sake, what it was in Joe that had been lost. Then he stopped and frowned and stared at her.
gpt
Oh, what's the use?
human
Oh, if you only knew, she cried,
gpt
Her brown eyes threw him a fierce appeal. And again she had him talking. He told of a plan for apartment buildings Joe had conceived in those early days.
human
I don't say it was practicable, I give it just to show you what the man had in him, he said.
gpt
Big ideas that strike in deep, the kind that change whole cities. Instead of a street like a canyon with sheer walls on either side, the front of each building was to recede in narrow terraces, floor by floor, so letting floods of sunlight down into the street below and giving to each apartment a small terrace garden. As she listened, Ethel grew intent. It was not the mere plan that excited her, she was giving small heed to the details. But this had in it what she had craved ever since she had come to the city--beauty and creative work--and this had been in Joe's