“You’re so funny.” “How?” “Well, I thought you had a lot of self-confidence and all that; remember you told me the other day that you could do anything you wanted, or get anything you wanted?” Amory flushed. He had told her a lot of things. “Yes.” “Well, you didn’t seem to feel so self-confident tonight. Maybe you’re just plain conceited.” “No, I’m not,” he hesitated. “At Princeton—” “Oh, you and Princeton! You’d think that was the world, the way you talk! Perhaps you can write better than anybody else on your old Princetonian; maybe the freshmen do think you’re important—” “You don’t
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