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One 1 ____ the difficulties that a man has to cope 2 ___ as he goes through life is what to do 3 ____ the persons with whom he has once been close 4____ and whose interest 5 ___ him has 6____ due course subsided. If both parties remain in a modest station 7 ____ break comes naturally, and no ill feeling subsists, but if one of them achieves eminence the position is awkward. He makes a multitude of new friends, but the old ones are inexorable; he has 8 ____ thousand claims 9 ___his time, but they feel that they have the first right to it. Unless he is 10 __ their beck and call they sigh and with a shrug of the shoulders say:
"Ah, well, I suppose you're like everyone else. I must expect to be dropped now that you're 11 ___ success."
That, of course, is what he would like to do if he had 12 ___ courage. For the most part he hasn't. He weakly accepts an invitation to supper 13 ____ Sunday evening. The cold roast beef is frozen and comes 14 ___ Australia and was over-cooked 15 ___ middle day. Have they never been to Beaune and stayed at the Hôtel de la Poste? Of course it is grand to talk of the good old days when you shared a crust of bread in a garret together, but it is a little disconcerting when you reflect how near to a garret is the room you are sitting in.