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It was the clapping that greeted the entry of the dumbbell team on the stage.
He had no glimpse of the comradeship after which the girl's soul yearned.
This time he did not bow before his master, for at the sight of the miserable conglomeration of useless metals his courage failed him, and he fainted.
He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity.
