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Of course this story can't be published as it stands just yet. Not -- if / I'm to be decent -- for another generation, because, thank Heaven, they're / still alive. (They've had me there, as they've always had me everywhere.) / How they managed it I can't think. I don't mean merely at the end, though / that was stupendous, but how they ever managed it. It seems to me they / must have taken _all_ the risks, always.
I suppose if you asked him he'd say, "That's how. " It was certainly the / way they managed the business of living. Perhaps it's why they managed it / on the whole so well. I remember how when I was shilly-shallying about / that last job of mine he said, "Take it. Take it. If you can risk living / at all, my dear fellow, you can risk that."