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and laugh at such as me would be if they'd been fooled about as I've
been. At twenty-three--it's a long start."
He looked up with a wintry smile, a sadder and wiser Hoopdriver indeed
than him of the glorious imaginings. "It's YOU done this," he said.
"
You're real. And it sets me thinking what I really am, and what I might
have been. Suppose it was all different--"
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MAKE it different."
How?"
WORK. Stop playing at life. Face it like a man."
"
Ah!" said Hoopdriver, glancing at her out of the corners of his eyes.
And even then--"
"
"No! It's not much good. I'm beginning too late."
And there, in blankly thoughtful silence, that conversation ended.
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