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"He's a success of a kind that I haven't approached." "Do you mean he has made money ?" "He makes it--to my belief.

And I," said Strether, "though with a back quite as bent, have never made anything.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure." He feared an instant she'd ask him if he meant he was poor; and he was glad she didn't, for he really didn't know to what the truth on this unpleasant point mightn't have prompted her.

She only, however, confirmed his assertion.

"Thank goodness you're a failure--it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous.


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