human
Work is good for you, he says, scanning the face of his friend;
gpt
The work is effective, then?
human
More. It is inspiring. Your printed words do not draw men to you as your eloquence did, and you take no personal part in directing human endeavor, but you are influencing others to action as you never did before, and instead of one great Edgar Braine, filling the eye of the public, we have thousands inspired by him to do his work for the betterment of the land and the time. My friend, I once tried to draw you from the solitude in which you were wasting yourself, as I supposed; I have no wish now to draw you from a seclusion in which you are doing a nobler work than in your most active days.
gpt
Thank you, Everet--and thank God! I have atonement to make, you know, and it is encouraging to know that I am making it.