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on the little creature's face.Already he was being teased—and by none other than Yoda himself! From the empty corner of the room, Luke heard the gentle, wise voice of BenKenobi responding to Yoda. "He will learn patience," Ben said. "Much anger in him," the dwarfish Jedi teacher persisted. "Like in his father." "We've discussed this before," Kenobi said. Luke could no longer wait. "I can be a Jedi," he interrupted. It meant morethan anything else to him to become a part of the noble band that had championed thecauses of justice and peace. "I'm ready, Ben…Ben…" The youth called to hisinvisible mentor, looking about the room in hopes of finding him. But all he sawwas Yoda sitting across from him at the table. "Ready are you?" the skeptical Yoda asked. "What know you of ready? Ihave trained Jedi for eight hundred years. My own counsel I'll keep on who is to betrained." "Why not me?" Luke asked, insulted by Yoda's insinuation.