But Marshal had good reason to be patient: Ernest had an extraordinary literary talent. Graceful sentences flew off his keyboard. Marshal’s ideas and Ernest’s sentences would be an unbeatable combination. All he needed was to restrain Ernest enough to get him accepted into the institute. Persuading Ernest to collaborate on journal articles, even book projects, would be no problem. Marshal had already planted the seeds by systematically exaggerating the difficulty Ernest would face in attaining admission to the institute and the importance of Marshal’s sponsorship. Ernest would be grateful for
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