"I think," said Pell, "that Peter's great success lay in his ability to
make friends. It was simply marvellous. I've seen it, over and over
again, both in politics and society. He never seemed to excite envy or
bitterness. He had a way of doing things which made people like him.
Every one he meets trusts him. Yet nobody understands him. So he
interests people, without exciting hostility. I've heard person after
person say that he was an uninteresting, ordinary man, and yet nobody
ever seemed to forget him. Every one of us feels, I am sure, that, as
Miss De Voe says, he had within something he never showed people. I have
never been able to see why he did or did not do hundreds of things. Yet
it always turned out that what he did was right. He makes me think of
the Frenchwoman who said to her sister, 'I don't know why it is, sister,
but I never meet any one who's always right but myself.'"
"You have hit it," said Ogden Ogden, "and I can prove that you have by
Peter's own explanation of his success.
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