human
He thanked me for my eloquent praises of the boy, and--not too partially, he hoped--believed that he deserved them all. A prize of beauty and of love had fallen to him in his little Ferdy, for which he would be grieved to seem ungrateful. But yet--but yet--the responsibility, the anxiety, the ceaseless fretting care! This fierce, unbroken city ;--he spoke of it as though it were a newly-lassoed and untamed mustang,--I liked the simile;
gpt
And then, as though he had suddenly detected in my face an expression of surprised discovery, he said,
human
But I am sure I do not know how I came to say so much, or let myself be tedious with sickly egotisms to a polite, but indifferent, stranger. If you have gathered from them more than I meant should appear, you will at least do me the justice to believe that I have not been boasting of what I regard as a calamity.
gpt
No doubt, no doubt; and I hope, Sir, the fault is in myself, that I do not appreciate the force and value of all that.