human
Heigho! We're living in an interesting time, you and I, said West.
gpt
It isn't every generation that can watch its old town change into a metropolis right under its eyes.
human
I remember, said she,
gpt
It's the law of life; the old order changeth. He turned and looked along the street, into the many faces of the homeward bound.
human
The eternal mystery of the people.... Don't you like to look at their faces and wonder what they're all doing and thinking and hoping and dreaming to make out of their lives?
gpt
Don't you think they're all hoping and dreaming just one thing?--how to make more money than they're making at present? All over the world, said Miss Weyland,
human
Clever rascals they are too. I, said West,
gpt
Little Bobby Smythe, who used to live here, was in my office the other day. I was complimenting him on the prosperity of the plumbers' supply manufacture--for such is his mundane occupation, in Schenectady, N.Y. Bobby said that plumbers' supplies were all well enough, but he made his real money from an interesting device of his own. There is a lot of building going on in his neighborhood, it seems, and it occurred to him to send around to the various owners and offer his private watchman to guard the loose building materials at night. This for the very reasonable price of $3.50 a week. It went like hot cakes. 'But,' said I, 'surely your one watchman can't look after thirty-seven different places.' 'No,' said Bobby, 'but they think he does.' I laughed and commended his ingenuity. 'But the best part of the joke,' said he, 'is that _I haven't got any watchman at all_.'
human
Bobby could stand for the portrait of young America.
gpt
You've been sitting at the feet of a staunch old Tory Gamaliel named Colonel Cowles. I can see that. Ah, me! My garrulity has cost us a splendid chance to cross. What are all these dreadful things you have still left to do on your so-called holiday?
human
Well, said she,
gpt
Don't you think he's much more likely to hurt somebody else? For a guess, that queer-looking little citizen in spectacles over the way, who so evidently doesn't know where he is at.
human
Oh, do you think so?--Bee!... Then, after stationery, comes the disagreeable thing, and yet interesting too. I have to go to my Aunt Jennie's, dunning.
gpt
You are compelled to dun your Aunt Jennie?
human
No--dun for her, because she's too tender-hearted to do it herself. There's a man there who won't pay his board. Bee! Bee!--BEE!-O heavens--It's happened!