human
It was an exquisite bit of workmanship, cunningly carved and chased, with a look of mellow age. There were two clasped hands,--not the meaningless models for wedding cakes, slim, tapering, faultless, but two cleverly vital looking hands, a man's and a woman's, the one rugged and strong, the other slender and firm, and the wrists, masculine and feminine, merging at the opposite side of the circle into one.
gpt
Oh ... Honor breathed,
human
Yes. It's a very old Italian ring. It was my great-grandmother's, first. It always goes to the wife of the eldest son. My Dad says it's supposed to mean love and marriage and--and everything--'the endless circle of creation,' he said, when I asked him what it meant, but first he just said, 'Give this to your girl and tell her to _hold hard_. Tell her we're a bad lot, but no King woman ever let go.'
gpt
Skipper! Skipper, _dearest_-- she was in the young iron clasp of his arms and his cheek was pressed down on her hair.
human
What is it? Skipper, tell me!
gpt
Oh, she sobbed, clinging to him,
human
I can't bear it, Jimsy! All the years--all those splendid men, all those faithful women, 'holding hard' against--against----
gpt
My Dad's the last of 'em, Skipper. He's the last 'Wild King.' It stops with him. I told him that, and he believes me. Do you believe me, Skipper?
human
I do believe you, Jimsy, she said.
gpt
And now I'll show you the secret of the ring. He took it from her and pressed a hidden spring. The clasped hands slowly parted, revealing a small intensely blue sapphire.
human
That's for 'constancy,' my Dad says. He put it on her finger.
gpt
It just fits!
human
Yes. And it just fits--us, too, Jimsy. The jewel hidden ... the way we must keep our secret. Muzzie won't let me wear it here, but I'll wear it the minute I leave here,--and every minute of my life. It was wonderful for your father to let us have it--when we're so young and have so long to wait!
gpt
He said--you know, he was different from anything he's ever been before, Skipper, more--more like his old self, I guess--he said it would help us to wait.
human
It will,
gpt
Skipper dear, he would write in his crude and hybrid hand,
human
I've made the Freshman team all right and it's a pretty fair to middling bunch and I guess we'll stack up pretty well against the Berkeley babes from what I hear, and they made me captain. It seems kind of natural, and I have three fellows from the L. A. team,--Burke and Estrada and Finley.
gpt
James King in the lead did a remarkable piece of work.
human
King, Stanford's football star, surprised his large following by his really brilliant performance.
gpt
Well-known college athlete demonstrates his ability to act.