human
P.S.--Could you come and see me one morning. I am healthy except for my feet, which are eat up with rheumatics so that I cannot get about much.
gpt
Chuck it aside, said Gran'pa.
human
This isn't a new bath salts or mineral waters treatment. We can't do anything with rheumaticky people.
gpt
Poor devil, I said.
human
He'll think that poverty is the real bar.
gpt
Very well! Write and tell him that it isn't. Say we're full up, but that he'll be put on the waiting list.
human
And leave him hoping--in vain?
gpt
While there's hope there's life at that age, said Gran'pa.
human
It'll give him a new interest in existence. In a business like this we can't be influenced by sentimental considerations.
gpt
belonging to others. We even had an application from a ninety-one-year-old member of the House of Lords, who was evidently dreaming of his lost greatness and hoping that, with youth on his side, he might be able to stem the tide of the new labor movement and save Britain from the dogs. His letter was really an essay on politics, liberally peppered with
human
Here's a rigmarole from a lord, I said to Gran'pa.
gpt
He has a mission to perform in the way of . . .
human
So have I, answered Gran'pa, tersely.
gpt
I'm an American--a republican. These wonderful, complicated and aristocratic titles all leave me cold. Let him die--or get his own glands.
human
SIR, it began austerely,
gpt
If your appeal is genuine I would have you beware, lest by tampering with the inscrutable laws of nature, you bring down on your head the malediction of God. According to our deserts are we spared to live on this earth,