Eliminate. [The final stroke was ticked off with a motion that was at once flippant and triumphant, pinching the notebook between his fingers and thumb to present to him the neatly written name at the start of the page, written as if to save room for the many names to come.]
I've made the trade for you. It's the reason that I have the fortuitous honor of recognizing you.
[Ultimately, he returned to formal speech once it seemed complicated explanations that excessive verbiage would only frustrate were no longer necessary. He might have misjudged how necessary some explanations still were, unfortunately.]
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I've made the trade for you. It's the reason that I have the fortuitous honor of recognizing you.
[Ultimately, he returned to formal speech once it seemed complicated explanations that excessive verbiage would only frustrate were no longer necessary. He might have misjudged how necessary some explanations still were, unfortunately.]