human
If you must give up your business, why shouldn't it be for something bigger than the college--public life for instance?
gpt
I may say, West answered her,
human
At dinner the other evening I met one of your fine old patriarchs, Colonel Cowles. He told us that the new Mayor of this city, if he was at all the right sort, would go from the City Hall to the Governorship. And do you know who represents his idea of the right sort of Mayor?
gpt
So modest--so modest! He said that the city needed a young progressive man of the better class and the highest character, and that man was--you. No other, by your leave! The Mayoralty, the Governorship, the Senate waiting behind that, perhaps--who knows? Is it wise to bottle one's self up in the blind alley of the college?