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time for him; and the actors in their dressing-rooms are talking about fishing, intestinal colic, and how a certain actor played Hamlet at the country town of Hradec Králové thirty years ago. And the dramatist, to act the hero, and to show them that he is not frightened by his own play, timidly joins in.

This, then, is what things are really like.

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