human
No, he came back to it in seriousness,
gpt
I don't think I have many illusions. I know it's far from the perfect thing, but I see it as set in the right direction. It seems to me that that, in itself, ought to mean considerable. It's the best thing I know of--for what I have to offer. Then I want to get out of cities for awhile--get Ann away from them. He paused over that and fell silent.
human
Osborne offered me a job, he came back to it with a laugh.
gpt
Seemed to think I was worth a very neat sum a year to his company--but that was scarcely my notion. In fact I doubt if I would have so much confidence in the forest service if it weren't for his hatred of it. You can judge a thing pretty well by the character of its enemies. Then I'm enough the creature of habit to want to go on in a service; I'm schooled to that thing of the collectivity. But I'll be happier in a service that--despite the weak spots in it--is in harmony with the big collectivity--rather than hopelessly discordant with it. And perhaps it needs some more or less disinterested fellows to help fight for it,