human
Here is something I brought you as a Christmas gift, Aunt Love. I had to get it in a hurry last night and I don’t feel sure that it will please you.
gpt
It’s good enough for an empress! she exclaimed in ingenuous delight.
human
Why, you’re too good, Mr. Jack. I’m just gettin’ spoiled this Christmas. I got another present out o’ the post-office last night, and Miss Lovina took from her pocket another and smaller box which she put into Jack’s hand.
gpt
Velvet too, you see, she said, beaming,
human
And it’s big enough for me, announced the happy owner triumphantly;
gpt
I didn’t know as gold ones grew big enough for workin’ hands like mine: but you wouldn’t catch Mrs. Van Tassel givin’ anybody a thing they couldn’t use.
human
Oh, it is from her?
gpt
Yes, answered Aunt Love, recalled by his tone from her heedless flight of enthusiasm.
human
This pin will always make me vain and happy, she added,
gpt
You have been an important person in my thoughts this fall, said the young man, as he handed her the thimble,
human
I will tell you, she said, after waiting a moment to see if her guest wished to proceed.
gpt
I will tell you everything I can. Do you want to ask me questions, or shall I just talk to you a little?
human
I want to know just how ill he was through the summer. I was deliberately kept in the dark.
gpt
He wasn’t ill at all. Not so to say real sick, she replied.
human
His head didn’t feel quite right after that light shock he got in the spring, and he thought he was takin’ every precaution by comin’ out of all the excitement of his busy life, right to this farm. The doctor said it was just the best thing he could do; and Mrs. Van Tassel
gpt
Then he was not confined to his bed here?
human
No, indeed. Not a day. He had a steamer chair out under the big elm, and it never seemed to fret him a bit to be idle; and his wife
gpt
He used to write me from under that tree,
human
Yes, indeed he did; and he liked to be read to, and to play backgammon; and whenever Mrs. Van Tassel
gpt
I ought to have been here to wait on him. What I was cheated out of!
human
But, Mr. Jack, Miss Berry spoke pleadingly,
gpt
It makes it especially hard, said Jack, still staring at the forgotten cigar, dropped now into the saucer,
human
The speaker’s features worked convulsively an instant.
gpt
The world is only a big, barren desert, without him, and I might have had all those months. I might