human
Why, that's only a bird, Jim--I saw it--it's gone into the bushes.
gpt
Yes, I know it; I seen it; that's what hurts me; that's what's allus goin' to hurt me. And 'tain't only goin' to be the birds. It's goin' to be the trees and the gray-backs and the trout we catched, and everywhere I look and every place I go to it's goin' to be the same thing. And it ain't never goin' to be no better--never--never--long as I live. She said so. Them was her very words I ain't never goin' to forgit 'em.
human
Who said so, Jim?
gpt
Ruby. She loves 'em--loves every one o' 'em. Oh, what's goin' to become o' me now, anyhow?
human
Well, but I don't--
gpt
Jim, I said, laying my hand on his shoulder,
human
Sit down here, he said, in a hopeless, despondent voice,