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you I have done my best to play my part heartily, 

 and to rejoice in the success of those who have 

 succeeded. Still, I should like to remind you at 

 the end of it all, that success on an occasion of 

 this kind, valuable and important as it is, is in 

 reality only putting the foot upon one rung of 

 the ladder which leads upwards ; and that the 

 rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, 

 but only to hold a man's foot long enough to 

 enable him to put the other somewhat higher. 

 I trust that you will all regard these successes as 

 simply reminders that your next business is, 

 having enjoyed the success of the day, no longer 

 to look at that success, but to look forward to the 

 next difficulty that is to be conquered. And now, 

 having had so much to say to the successful 

 candidates, you must forgive me if I add that a sort 

 of under-current of sympathy has been going on in 

 my mind all the time for those who have not been 

 successful, for those valiant knights who have 

 been overthrown in your tourney, and have not 

 made their appearance in public. I trust that, 

 in accordance with old custom, they, wounded and 

 bleeding, have been carried off to their tents, to 

 be carefully tended by the fairest of maidens; 

 and in these days, when the chances are that 

 every one of such maidens will be a qualified 

 practitioner, I have no doubt that all the splinters 

 will have been carefully extracted, and that they 

 are now physically healed. But there may 



