human
By the way, Brassfield, said Mr. Slater during a recess preceding the initiation of candidates,
gpt
Stevens! Catacombs! gasped Amidon,
human
I wish you could have been here when I was put through, went on Mr. Slater.
gpt
I don't see how any one but a professional actor, or a person with your dramatic gifts, can do that part at all--it's so sort of ripping and--and intense, you know. I look forward to your rendition of it with a good deal of pleasurable anticipation.
human
You don't expect me to do it, do you?
gpt
Why, who else? was the counter-question.
human
We can't be expected to play on the bench the best man in Pennsylvania in that part, can we?
gpt
Come, Brassfield, said the Sovereign Pontiff,
human
Oh, say, now! said Amidon, trying to be off-hand about it,
gpt
What's that! Some one else? Very likely we shall! Very likely! thus the Sovereign Pontiff with fine scorn.
human
Come, the regalia, and no nonsense!
gpt
I--I may be called out at any moment, urged Amidon, amidst an outcry that seemed to indicate a breach with the Martyrs then and there.
human
There are reasons why----
gpt
Is there any truth in this story, said he,
human
Oh, that Stevens! gasped Amidon, as if the whole discussion had hinged on picking out the right one among an army of Stevenses.
gpt
Yes, it's true, and I can't help confer this----