human
I want to buy the little beggar, he said, so eagerly that the owner mentioned a preposterous price. Blair took the money out of his pocket, and the bird out of the cage. For a minute the captive hesitated, clinging with terrified claws to his rescuer's friendly finger.
gpt
Off with you, old fellow! Blair said, tossing the bird up into the air; and the unused wings were spread! For a minute the eyes of the two men followed the joyous flight over the housetops; then the tobacconist grinned rather sheepishly:
human
Guess you've struck oil, ain't you?--or somebody's left you a fortune.
gpt
Think so? he said. But as he walked on down the street, he sighed; how dull the robin's eyes had been. Elizabeth's eyes looked like that sometimes.
human
What a donkey I am, he said to himself;
gpt
Then he fell to thinking how he must invest what fortune he had--anything to get that confounded robin out of his head!
human
I'm not going to keep all my money in a stocking in the bank, he told himself. The idea of investment pleased him; and when he got back to Mercer he devoted himself to consultations with brokers. After some three months of it, he found the 'work,' as he called it, distinctly amusing.
gpt
It's mighty interesting, he told his wife once;
human
I really like it.
gpt
meant that he had forgiven her, and so no longer loved her,--for of course, if he loved her he would not forgive her! In these two years she had told herself with perfect sincerity, a thousand times, that he had ceased to love her; but now it seemed to her that, for the first time, she really knew it.
human
He doesn't even hate me, she thought, bleakly. For sheer understanding of suffering she grew a little gentler to Blair; but her sympathy, although it gave him moments of hope, did not reach the point of helping him to decide what to do about the will. So, veering between the sobering reflection that litigation was probably useless, and the esthetically repulsive idea of using his mother's confession of regret to fight her, he reached no decision. Meantime,