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With a smile of self-confidence, Paul faced the cheering auditorium and gloried in the praise. It -- this moment -- was payment in plenty for years of struggle and of being a third-rate voice crying against the stone wall of authority.
He took their cries of praise with a deferent attitude, but remained on the podium, which indicated that he had more to tell. They subsided after minutes of wild applause, and Paul continued: