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The Ambassadors

BOOK Sixth
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"Of course I'm youth--youth for the trip to Europe.

I began to be young, or at least to get the benefit of it, the moment I met you at Chester, and that's what has been taking place ever since.

I never had the benefit at the proper time--which comes to saying that I never had the thing itself.

I'm having the benefit at this moment; I had it the other day when I said to Chad 'Wait'; I shall have it still again when Sarah Pocock arrives.
It's a benefit that would make a poor show for many people; and I don't know who else but you and I, frankly, could begin to see in it what I feel.

I don't get drunk; I don't pursue the ladies; I don't spend money; I don't even write sonnets.


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