human
Oh, Blair said breathlessly,
gpt
It _is_ wonderful, his mother said.
human
Thomas, here, can move the lever that tips the ladle with his two fingers--and out comes the iron as neatly as cream out of a jug!
gpt
Come on! he did not hear her. Mrs. Maitland, standing with her hands on her hips, her feet well apart, held her head high; she was intensely gratified by his interest.
human
If his father had only lived to see him!
gpt
He takes to it like a duck to water, doesn't he, Jim?
human
And, said Jim, telling the story afterward,
gpt
I allowed I'd never seen a young feller as knowing about castings as him. She took it down straight. You can't pile it on too thick for a woman, about her young 'un.
human
Somebody ought to paint it,
gpt
I call that ladle the 'cradle of civilization.' Think what's inside of it! There are rails, that will hold New York and San Francisco together, and engines and machines for the whole world; there are telegraph wires that will bring--think of all the kinds of news they will bring, Blair,--wars, and births of babies! There are bridges in it, and pens that may write--well, maybe love-letters, she said, with sly and clumsy humor,
human
she said, her face full of luminous abstraction,
gpt
Yes, he said,
human
Come on! she said, with a proud look. Over her shoulder she flung back at him figures and statistics; she told him of the tons of bridge materials on the books; the rail contract she had just taken was a big thing, very big!
gpt
We've never handled such an order, but we can do it!