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Rh an’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a ’s the man who tries bravely for something bemd his power that gets somewhere, the man who ally succeeds. Well, you tried for something jyond your power—to beat Calvert, a really great inner. You tried to your utmost; therefore, you icceeded. I admire your sense of failure; it eans that you recognize an ideal. But I think at you succeeded. You may not have quite stiffed yourself to yourself, but you have proved pable of enduring a hard test bravely. You have ) reason to be depressed, no reason to be hamed.”
 * aven for?’ He says it in a dozen different ways,

They talked for a long time, and finally Henley ■nfessed that he thought Cynthia had been wise taking herself out of Hugh’s life.

“I can see,” he said, “that you are n’t telling me lite all the story. I don’t want you to, either. I dge, however, from what you have said that you unkenness saved you from disgracing both yourlf and her. You need no lecture, I am sure; you e sufficiently contrite. I have a feeling that she is right about sexual attraction being paramount; lid I think that she is a very brave girl. I like e way she went home, and I like the way she has pt silent. Not many girls could or would do at. It takes courage. From what you have
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