1. The famous mime Baptiste Deburau
passionately loves
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2. a minor actress, Garance.
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3. Out of timidity, he misses his chance
to conquer her.
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4. Instead, she becomes the mistress
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5. of the great actor Frederick Lemaitre.
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6. At the Funambules Theatre,
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7. a rich dandy, Count de Montray,
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8. offers her his protection.
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9. She turns him down.
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10. But when wrongly accused
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11. of taking part in a murder attempt
by her friend Lacenaire,
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12. Garance holds out the count's card
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13. to the astonished police.
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14. "THE MAN IN WHITE"
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15. Several years have gone by...
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16. The worst play ever seen
on the Boulevard.
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17. The absolute worst.
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18. - Why do it then?
- Because I signed on.
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19. - Why did you sign?
- I need money.
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20. You earn a fortune.
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21. I end up with nothing,
since I spend more than I earn.
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22. Hurry UP-
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23. The authors are impatient.
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24. Alas.
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25. If punctuality
is the courtesy of kings...
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26. it's not that
of Frederick Lemaitre.
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27. And they call them authors. Really.
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28. Why do honest folk persist
in writing tales of brigands?
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29. Even convicts could write better
than that.
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30. At least they have experience.
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31. A drink, my little kittens.
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32. For pity's sake.
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33. Thank you, child.
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34. Not at all convincing.
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35. Poor Robert Macaire.
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36. What's going on, my kittens?
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37. I can't hear you.
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38. We're sad.
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39. We both love you,
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40. but we're friends, so...
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41. So?
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42. We don't want to quarrel.
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43. Then do as I do.
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44. Act.
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45. It's your chosen profession.
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46. When I act, I'm madly in love.
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47. You hear? Madly.
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48. At the final curtain,
the audience leaves with my love.
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49. Understand?
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50. I make the audience
a gift of my love.
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51. The audience is gratified,
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52. and so am I.
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53. Then I become sensible,
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54. calm and free again,
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55. silent as Baptiste.
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56. Not that again.
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57. That's all I hear.
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58. "Have you seen Baptiste?"
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59. Even Theophile Gautier:
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60. "Don't miss Baptiste in The Ragman.
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61. A masterpiece."
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62. Calling a pantomime a "masterpiece."
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63. Theophile's gone too far.
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64. Don't touch.
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65. It's a souvenir.
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66. It pricks.
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67. "Viper of memory, stab of regret,
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68. red light of oblivion."
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69. it's all nonsense, fantasy, hot air.
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70. What I like is reality.
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71. Only two acts, but well made.
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72. Compliments to the authors.
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73. What vulgarity, really.
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74. You think it's funny.
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75. Well, I don't, you hear?
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76. That's it. We've quarreled.
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77. Are you angry with me?
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78. Excuse me.
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79. What is it?
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80. Nothing.
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81. Just some people waiting for you.
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82. Poor authors.
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83. Not them.
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84. They started rehearsals
without us ages ago.
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85. Admirers, no doubt?
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86. That's it... "admirers."
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87. I'm coming.
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88. Back in a moment, my sweet.
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89. Tidy up after you finish
snooping around.
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90. Poor costume. As bad as mine.
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91. The manager wants you.
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92. So, where are our knaves?
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93. - You make debts, you pay them.
- The cad.
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94. Box his ears.
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95. Jealous husbands, angry creditors.
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96. As usual.
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97. Grumblers and malcontents.
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98. A fog of men.
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99. You go first.
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100. We'll plunge into the fog once more.
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101. Gentlemen?
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102. Swindler.
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103. My money.
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104. My bills.
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105. You ham.
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106. Help.
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107. They're striking Robert Macaire.
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108. Call out the Cossacks.
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109. They're killing Frederick the Great.
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110. So I run out of the inn
when I hear the shot.
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111. You rush over to the body.
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112. Where the body should be,
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113. as Mr. Lemaitre isn't here.
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114. Fine.
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115. Shall we?
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116. The hour of justice strikes.
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117. You won't escape punishment.
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118. Bang!
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119. Alas, you have killed him.
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120. O woe.
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121. He was a wicked man,
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122. but he was my husband.
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123. Excuse me. I got carried away.
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124. However, I would like
just a bit more...
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125. A touch more...
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126. A touch more feeling.
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127. Yes, that's right. Feeling.
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128. Feeling, feeling, and more feeling.
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129. Dare I hope, gentlemen,
my costume is to your taste?
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130. Not bad. It has something.
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131. This must be some kind...
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132. Of a joke.
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133. Robert Macaire and his evil sidekick
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134. haven't been to their tailor's,
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135. but in a penal colony.
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136. They're bandits, not dandies.
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137. But that eye patch.
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138. It's hideous.
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139. The eye behind it
is even more hideous.
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140. Gentlemen, let's not argue again.
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141. He's here, so let's rehearse Act ll,
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142. scene 9.
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143. On with it.
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144. I'd rather do the scene
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145. It's funnier.
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146. We are not here to amuse the gallery.
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147. A pity.
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148. Oh, well, if you insist.
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149. Come on, Latour, old girl. Scene 9.
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150. My son.
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151. You give me the courage to face
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152. the wretch behind our misfortune.
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153. Egad, my wife.
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154. Yes, your wife and victim.
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155. Woeful Marie.
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156. She does look glum.
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157. Spare us your asides.
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158. On with it.
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159. I am found out.
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160. You betrayed me, Marie.
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161. To save my son.
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162. To save your son,
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163. you betray his father.
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164. Alas.
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165. I shall feign to be moved.
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166. Marie.
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167. My poor Marie.
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168. Robert. My poor Robert.
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169. Could you really have committed
all those crimes?
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170. What can I say, Marie?
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171. No one's perfect.
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172. Stop!
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173. That's not in the play.
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174. So?
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175. Your play's empty-
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176. It needs some padding.
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177. Outrageous!
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178. That's right.
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179. Your wretched "inn" is empty.
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180. Think the audience
will bring their supper?
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181. They'll bring tomatoes.
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182. You call this a drama?
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183. Some drama.
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184. And in three acts.
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185. One each. So no one feels cheated.
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186. Three acts.
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187. I call them actionable.
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188. Don't play with words.
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189. What can I play with? Your ideas?
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190. You have none.
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191. Come now, Frederick.
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192. We can't be insulted by someone
who got his start in pantomimes...
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193. On his hands.
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194. Why not?
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195. You wrote a play with your feet.
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196. Monsieur!
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197. You force us
to take drastic measures.
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198. Monsieur, you signed a contract
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199. and have received...
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200. And spent.
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201. a generous advance.
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202. Are you prepared to honor
your obligations?
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203. Are you prepared to perform our play?
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204. Why, certainly, gentlemen.
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205. Provided it plays along.
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206. Enough.
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207. We have a description of the culprit.
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208. Don't try to escape.
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209. You're surrounded.
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210. One of them calls himself Remond,
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211. but we know his real name.
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212. It's Robert Macaire.
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213. And Robert Macaire...
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215. Prove you're not him, if you can.
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216. He's in a bind. It's not in the play.
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217. By the time he thinks of a line,
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218. I'll have escaped again.
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219. Come on, Rover, let's be off.
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220. The drama isn't played out yet.
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221. Frederick, please, come back.
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222. Stop them.
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223. They'll get away.
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224. Don't move, you're surrounded.
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225. Just when I get a chance
to see the play.
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226. Enough speeches.
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227. Surrender.
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228. To whom? You clever boy.
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229. Come now.
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230. You've been unmasked.
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231. We know you're Robert Macaire.
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232. If you're not Macaire,
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233. the escaped convict,
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234. answer me this:
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235. Who are you?
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236. I am Frederick Lemaitre.
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237. Liar.
You're under arrest.
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238. Not again.
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239. Shall We kill him?
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240. Killing gendarmes never hurt anybody.
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241. Fall down, you fool.
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242. You're dead.
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243. Alas, you've killed him.
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244. O woe.
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245. He was a wicked man,
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246. but he was my husband.
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247. Don't worry, dear widow,
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248. it was a false alarm.
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249. Dry your tears.
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250. Your little hubby lives.
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251. Not for long.
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252. It had to end like this.
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253. I die.
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254. Farewell, Marie.
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255. Forgive me.
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256. I wasn't a bad man.
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257. It was the company I kept.
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258. I was but the arm that executes,
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259. the hand that strikes,
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260. the foot that leaves its mark
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261. in the dust of crime.
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262. But the true criminals,
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263. those who plotted in the shadows...
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264. I point out to Divine Justice.
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265. The true authors of this crime
are there.
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266. A triumph.
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267. A disgrace...
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268. without precedent.
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269. So, gentlemen,
I trust you're satisfied.
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270. Monsieur, you've insulted us.
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271. Only your ignorance
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that by insulting us,
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273. you have deeply insulted
the Dramatic Arts.
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274. You have sacked and trampled
our oeuvre,
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275. debased our prose.
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276. It's good luck.
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277. Vulgarian.
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278. We demand satisfaction.
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279. As you like. Tomorrow morning?
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280. Not a duel.
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281. The Holy Trinity feels offended,
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282. so we have to cross swords.
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283. Arrange it.
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284. Let them draw straws.
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285. I'll fight the winner.
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286. You may have the choice of arms.
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287. I'll be at the chestnut grove
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288. with my seconds.
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289. A wise precaution.
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290. What are you doing here?
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291. How did you get in?
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292. Hands off. It's a souvenir.
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293. It might be one for me, as well.
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294. Who knows?
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295. And who are you?
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296. My name will mean nothing.
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297. As you're famous enough for two,
let's forgo introductions
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298. and get to the purpose of my call.
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299. I'll be brief. I need money.
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300. Everyone does.
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301. More or less.
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302. Maybe, but I'd like to know
why you come to me.
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303. I don't even know you.
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304. No matter.
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305. I know you.
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308. But let's not get carried away.
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309. Yes, you are already famous,
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to appeal to you, quite simply.
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to a friend or brother.
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of knowing you...
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327. "Quite simply."
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328. You amaze me.
Actors are said to be misers.
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331. There's still progress to be made.
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332. You practice a peculiar craft.
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334. No doubt.
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335. But you make hearts beat
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337. You don't understand.
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338. That's the beauty of it.
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339. It's dazzling.
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340. To feel and hear your heart
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341. and the heart of the audience
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343. How promiscuous.
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344. If my heart starts to beat loudly,
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345. I take special delight
in being the only one to hear it.
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of such a heart does in life?
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you wouldn't believe me.
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352. But I have no regrets.
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353. I write light pieces,
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355. I'm fond of one of my plays, though.
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361. Interesting.
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366. Yes.
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367. For you.
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368. For me?
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369. Had you been so foolhardy
as to refuse...
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370. I can assure you the blade
doesn't retract into the handle.
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371. You don't think Frederick
would resist?
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372. I didn't come here alone.
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373. Incredible.
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374. Like a scene from the play.
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375. Happy now?
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376. I sure am.
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a great admirer of yours.
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378. The thought of...
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379. I felt sick.
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381. How nice.
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382. So there are decent folks
in every trade.
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383. So, did you enjoy the play?
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385. The boy is shy about his feelings.
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386. But you were there tonight?
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387. Well?
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388. Interesting.
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389. I wouldn't criticize...
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390. Please do.
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you come across a specialist.
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393. This is marvelous.
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394. Do me the honor of supping with me.
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395. I had it prepared for the authors.
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396. But I doubt...
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397. But I doubt...
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398. it's most kind of you,
but we don't wish to intrude.
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399. And you must be tired.
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400. Not at all.
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402. No formalities. Let's eat.
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403. If you insist.
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to die on an empty stomach.
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412. Indeed.
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413. Yet it would make life
so much easier.
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414. And with success at our doorstep.
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415. You're killing the goose
that lays the golden egg.
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417. Kill us.
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418. Gentlemen, please.
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419. I'm the only one dueling.
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422. A pistol.
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423. Here he comes.
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424. And for once, he's on time.
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425. He's drunk.
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427. No time to change into black.
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428. We talked all night.
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430. True, we're not here
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431. but lead.
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435. You can't be serious.
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436. You're not your usual self.
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437. My usual self? What's that?
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439. No matter.
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440. I'm not going far.
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441. Besides, in such ceremonies,
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442. the line of sight is the shortest
distance between two points.
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443. it's sold out, I tell you.
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444. And tomorrow?
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445. Not a seat left.
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447. A ticket seller without tickets.
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448. Oh, Mr. Frederick.
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449. You're hurt?
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450. From a pigeon shoot.
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451. A peck in the arm.
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452. I bet the pigeon's worse off.
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453. Is that why you're closed?
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454. I heard your play
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456. It's like with Baptiste.
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457. Things were slow,
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458. and then all of a sudden...
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459. it's incredible.
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460. The whole town's fighting for seats.
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462. That won't be easy.
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463. I've got an idea. Come on.
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comes every night,
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to see Baptiste.
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472. It's all right.
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473. Garance!
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What brings you here, sir?
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for such great lovers as we."
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480. To walk off like that, saying,
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482. and then vanish for years.
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483. And when she decides to return,
she asks innocently,
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487. I waited in this chair.
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488. For years.
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491. But, in fact, you have.
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that take longer to heal.
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502. So it was that man,
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503. Desdemona,
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504. that man with the flowers
you left with?
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513. Is Scotland beautiful?
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522. Listen to the Gods.
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523. I used to laugh like that once.
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524. I'd burst out laughing,
just like that, without thinking.
Copy !req
525. But nowadays...
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526. You're sad.
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527. No, but I'm not cheerful either.
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528. A spring broke in the music box.
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529. The tune is the same
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530. but it's in a different key.
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531. He's marvelous.
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532. He's gentleness itself.
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533. How does he manage to look so cruel?
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534. So you love him?
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535. Since I left,
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536. not a day goes by
that I don't think of him.
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537. He knows you come every night
to see him?
Copy !req
538. No. He has his life, I have mine.
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539. What would be the point?
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540. This can't be happening to me.
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541. This is absurd.
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542. What is it?
Copy !req
543. I think I'm jealous.
Copy !req
544. I don't know.
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545. I've never felt anything like this.
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546. It's insidious, unpleasant.
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547. It infects your heart.
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548. You try to reason,
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549. but your reason fails you.
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550. Do you realize, Garance?
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551. Just now,
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552. because of you, because of Baptiste,
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553. I felt jealous.
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554. Me, jealous.
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555. And full of regrets.
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556. That man,
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557. that traveler taking you away,
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558. and me letting you go.
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559. And to make things worse,
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560. there's Baptiste
performing like a god.
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561. It's not that I want him to be awful,
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562. but maybe just...
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563. Yes, just a bit bad.
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564. Not bad.
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565. But mediocre...
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566. I'd have liked that.
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567. At least,
when I talk about it, it stops.
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568. You see? It wasn't so serious.
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569. A slight attack.
You're already recovered.
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570. Recovered?
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571. Why should I recover so fast?
Copy !req
572. What if I enjoyed it?
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573. What if jealousy was helpful to me?
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574. Useful, even necessary.
Copy !req
575. Thank you, Garance.
Copy !req
576. Thanks to all of you,
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577. I can at last play Othello.
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578. I didn't feel the character.
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579. He was alien to me.
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580. Now he's a friend, a brother.
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581. I've found him.
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582. Othello, my heart's desire.
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583. After you, Desdemona.
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584. I'll go embrace Baptiste.
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585. I owe him that much.
Copy !req
586. Shall I take a message?
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587. Really, Frederick.
Copy !req
588. I mean it.
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589. True, I may be jealous,
but I understand.
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590. And he has a wife and child.
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591. That makes me feel better.
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592. Whereas that other man...
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593. Well, Garance?
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594. You might mention me.
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595. And if he seems to care,
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596. say I'm passing through Paris,
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597. that I'm leaving soon,
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598. and that I'd be happy,
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599. so very happy,
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600. if he came to say hello.
Copy !req
601. So it's you, ingrate.
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602. After all these years.
Copy !req
603. But the prodigal son returns.
Copy !req
604. Don't forget Alexis's fine
for being drunk, brawling,
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605. and breaking a vase.
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606. Five francs.
Copy !req
607. The fine's gone up?
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608. Noblesse oblige
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609. The price of success.
Copy !req
610. You're not doing so badly yourself.
Copy !req
611. I'm glad. Bravo.
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612. You've come.
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613. And I took the first step.
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614. On one hand.
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615. Hardly.
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616. I've been to see you several times.
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617. And no hello?
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618. I didn't dare.
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619. Besides, I was so moved.
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620. You're a great actor now.
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621. The greatest.
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622. Really, no.
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623. What you do is sublime.
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624. No, it's you,
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625. There are many great actors.
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626. A few, anyway.
Copy !req
627. But great mimes...
before you there was no one.
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628. You're unique.
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629. You invented it all.
Copy !req
630. I'm glad you like my work.
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631. It's Nathalie.
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632. You're a real beauty now.
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633. I'm not beautiful, Frederick.
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634. Just happy-
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635. Beauty and happiness go together.
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636. This little fellow's yours?
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637. What's your name?
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638. Baptiste.
Copy !req
639. Like his father.
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640. Quite a family, is it not?
Copy !req
641. Greetings, Frederick.
Copy !req
642. It's truly a great day
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643. when the greatest actor
in Europe and beyond
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644. at last calls on the world's
undisputed masters of pantomime.
Copy !req
645. And there we are.
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646. Greetings, all.
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647. This is Jericho,
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648. alias Wild Boar,
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649. Lone Sleeper.
Copy !req
650. I can't stand his repulsive looks
and distasteful voice.
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651. Here you are, bandit, body snatcher.
Copy !req
652. Don't start.
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653. Shame on you.
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654. You stole my looks, my identity.
Copy !req
655. You're not the only ragman in Paris.
Copy !req
656. Besides, you supplied the costume.
Copy !req
657. I didn't realize what it was for.
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658. Every night, Baptiste kills
a poor old man like me...
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659. as entertainment.
Copy !req
660. What an example.
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661. Enough, friend.
You're drunk and babbling.
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662. Go home to bed.
Copy !req
663. I may be drunk,
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664. but I've still got principles.
Copy !req
665. Why don't you ever say hello
to OI' Papa Joshua?
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666. You're just like your father.
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667. You despise and shun me.
Copy !req
668. What's Baptiste got against me?
Copy !req
669. Nothing.
Copy !req
670. Only that you don't mind
your own business.
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671. Is it his business
what is or isn't mine?
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672. I've always lived all alone.
Copy !req
673. So I take an interest in others.
Copy !req
674. Always alone.
Copy !req
675. That's no life.
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676. No one to love me.
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677. Nothing, zero, naught.
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678. If I were a widower,
at least I'd have memories.
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679. But no woman would have me.
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680. They preferred
little fly-by-nights and libertines.
Copy !req
681. Listen, Nathalie.
Copy !req
682. Let me tell you something.
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683. Sure, it's none of my business,
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684. but it's for your own good.
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685. Spare me your gossip.
Copy !req
686. Just listen. This won't take long.
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687. Garance is back.
Copy !req
688. She's here, in Box 7,
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689. and she's waiting for Baptiste.
Copy !req
690. Garance!
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691. Like the flower.
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692. Box 7. Don't forget.
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693. Mama.
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694. Listen.
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695. It's true, you know.
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696. I often miss the Funambules.
Copy !req
697. Do you also have good memories
of our work together?
Copy !req
698. Yes, good memories.
Copy !req
699. You're not angry with me?
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700. Why should I be angry?
Copy !req
701. Garance.
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702. Let bygones be bygones.
Copy !req
703. It's all behind us now.
Copy !req
704. Come in.
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705. Hello, Madame.
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706. I have a message for you.
Copy !req
707. I came to say we're happy together,
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708. Mama, Papa and me.
Copy !req
709. Did your father send you?
Copy !req
710. No, Mama did.
Copy !req
711. But Mama, Papa or me...
it's the same.
Copy !req
712. Mama was right.
Copy !req
713. About what?
Copy !req
714. You're beautiful.
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715. When I grow up,
I'll get married
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716. to someone like you.
Copy !req
717. Or like Mama, if I can.
Copy !req
718. You're a darling boy.
Copy !req
719. Are you married?
Copy !req
720. You don't have a little boy?
Copy !req
721. I don't have a little boy.
Copy !req
722. Then you're all alone?
Copy !req
723. Yes.
Copy !req
724. I'm all alone.
Copy !req
725. Weren't you curious about this woman
Copy !req
726. who comes to see you every night?
Copy !req
727. Perhaps you're used to it.
Copy !req
728. You're on, Baptiste.
Copy !req
729. Listen, Baptiste.
Copy !req
730. I should have told you sooner.
Copy !req
731. That woman is Garance.
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732. She's back, but not for long.
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733. She'd like to see you,
you understand?
Copy !req
734. What's wrong?
Copy !req
735. Good evening, my angel.
Copy !req
736. Pierre-Frangois.
Copy !req
737. Who?
Copy !req
738. Ah, yes, Pierre-Frangois.
Copy !req
739. Forgive me. I lose track
of all the names I use.
Copy !req
740. A childish precaution.
The police are so inept.
Copy !req
741. Unlike me.
Copy !req
742. I am well informed.
Copy !req
743. For example,
I knew about your return at once.
Copy !req
744. I learned where you were living,
Copy !req
745. and with whom.
Copy !req
746. Nothing escapes you.
Copy !req
747. And I know they've put
my angel in a gilded cage.
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748. I'm not throwing stones.
Copy !req
749. I've been in prison myself lately,
Copy !req
750. and in the provinces.
Copy !req
751. Not even a hint of a smile?
Copy !req
752. I used to amuse you.
Copy !req
753. Have you lost your gaiety,
Copy !req
754. or is it so unpleasant to see me?
Copy !req
755. On the contrary,
Copy !req
756. I'm glad to see you.
Copy !req
757. Yes, it reminds me of...
Copy !req
758. An entire era.
Copy !req
759. Yes, the easy years,
Copy !req
760. the happy days, the good life.
Copy !req
761. Never look back at the past,
my angel.
Copy !req
762. It leaps at your throat
like a mad dog.
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763. I was lucky enough to be happy.
Copy !req
764. Despite all.
Copy !req
765. Back then.
Copy !req
766. Don't be silly.
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767. Then as now.
Copy !req
768. Time has nothing to do
with happiness.
Copy !req
769. Really?
Copy !req
770. And the man in white?
Copy !req
771. Do you think your friend,
the mime, is happy?
Copy !req
772. To think I had
the absurd notion of killing him.
Copy !req
773. Comical, no?
Copy !req
774. One might as well stab
at a breeze or a moonbeam.
Copy !req
775. And the other one: Frederick.
Copy !req
776. I considered him too.
Copy !req
777. I even called on him
on an amusing pretext.
Copy !req
778. Which was?
Copy !req
779. To ask this complete stranger
for money.
Copy !req
780. He'd refuse and...
Copy !req
781. And he gave it to you?
Copy !req
782. A large sum. Amazing.
Copy !req
783. Unselfish people still exist.
Copy !req
784. People.
Copy !req
785. Actors aren't people.
Copy !req
786. They're every man and no man.
Copy !req
787. People of high society:
Those are people.
Copy !req
788. Like Count de Montray,
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789. one of France's richest notables.
Copy !req
790. - You've changed.
- Have I?
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791. You used to speak of yourself,
rarely of others.
Copy !req
792. But what's become of you?
Copy !req
793. I've become famous.
Copy !req
794. A few sensational crimes.
Copy !req
795. The name Lacenaire has been
in the crime columns.
Copy !req
796. Hunted by police in the provinces,
Copy !req
797. while he is here in Paris
with his guardian angel.
Copy !req
798. You're a celebrity.
Copy !req
799. I'm becoming one.
Copy !req
800. But upon reflection,
I'd have preferred literary success.
Copy !req
801. Never satisfied.
Copy !req
802. They say the count
is a generous patron of the arts.
Copy !req
803. I'd enjoy meeting him.
Copy !req
804. Do you really need to?
Copy !req
805. Don't worry.
Copy !req
806. I'd like to meet the man
who laid the icy hand of wealth
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807. on the pale shoulder of my angel.
Copy !req
808. There were no strings attached.
Copy !req
809. I'm still free.
Copy !req
810. Perhaps.
Copy !req
811. That's what bothers me.
Copy !req
812. It's so painful to see you again,
Copy !req
813. and find you unchanged.
Copy !req
814. I'd prefer to find you
ravaged, submissive,
Copy !req
815. rendered stupid by wealth.
Copy !req
816. Then I could have lived
with an easy conscience,
Copy !req
817. and my fine idea of mankind.
Copy !req
818. My poor Pierre-Frangois.
Copy !req
819. You think I'm a monster, don't you?
Copy !req
820. Possibly,
Copy !req
821. but you're not the only one.
Copy !req
822. Alas.
Copy !req
823. Edouard de Montray, I presume?
Copy !req
824. Himself.
Copy !req
825. I was so anxious to meet you.
Copy !req
826. And now I have. I'm delighted.
Copy !req
827. How amusing.
Copy !req
828. Amusing and unexpected.
Copy !req
829. And to whom...
Copy !req
830. No one. It's of no importance.
Copy !req
831. You do realize that I find
your manner most distasteful.
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832. Who are you, Monsieur?
Copy !req
833. Is it not absurd to ask people
who they are?
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834. Excuse me?
Copy !req
835. That's why they're so evasive.
Copy !req
836. They give you the easy reply:
a name, a title.
Copy !req
837. But who they are really,
Copy !req
838. who they are deep down,
they conceal with great care.
Copy !req
839. You speak for yourself.
Copy !req
840. No, everyone. You as well.
Copy !req
841. I find your ways quite indiscreet.
Copy !req
842. You don't know me,
yet you ask who I am.
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843. The nerve.
Copy !req
844. Enough.
Where can my seconds...
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845. Pointless. I'm not a man who duels.
Copy !req
846. Absolutely not.
Copy !req
847. That explains things in part.
Copy !req
848. Or if I do,
the choice of arms is always mine.
Copy !req
849. I choose one, just one,
Copy !req
850. and I keep one for me, on me,
Copy !req
851. and I kill when I'm sure,
when it pleases me.
Copy !req
852. Of course, it's more expeditious.
Copy !req
853. To each his own method.
Copy !req
854. Quite.
Copy !req
855. I presume
you have nothing more to say.
Copy !req
856. Valentin.
Copy !req
857. I warn you I am not a man
one throws out.
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858. I would regret
having to kill a servant.
Copy !req
859. Have no fear.
Copy !req
860. Valentin is an old retainer
to whom I'm very attached.
Copy !req
861. Will you show the gentleman out?
Copy !req
862. Good evening.
Copy !req
863. Good evening, my friend.
Copy !req
864. How strange.
Copy !req
865. When I'm not home you sing,
Copy !req
866. but when I come in, you fall silent.
Copy !req
867. You only like serious music.
Copy !req
868. Sadly, our tastes differ.
Copy !req
869. May I ask where you spent
the evening?
Copy !req
870. At the Funambules.
Copy !req
871. Again.
Copy !req
872. And you,
at those ghastly animal fights.
Copy !req
873. "Ghastly" is too strong a word.
Copy !req
874. They threw a mangy bear
to three mastiffs like a bone.
Copy !req
875. It wasn't sport, but butchery.
Copy !req
876. A most dreary evening.
Copy !req
877. And the Funambules?
Copy !req
878. I won't be going back again.
Copy !req
879. I'm delighted.
Copy !req
880. Don't belittle the Funambules.
Copy !req
881. You forget we met there.
Copy !req
882. Which no doubt explains
Copy !req
883. your pious nightly pilgrimage?
Copy !req
884. No, my friend.
Copy !req
885. The contrary would surprise me.
Copy !req
886. May I know the name of that man
who just left?
Copy !req
887. Were you at the Funambules
with him?
Copy !req
888. That man?
Copy !req
889. I see.
Copy !req
890. An old acquaintance.
He came to say hello.
Copy !req
891. A most peculiar individual.
Copy !req
892. What does he do?
Copy !req
893. He writes.
Copy !req
894. To be perfectly honest,
when I knew him,
Copy !req
895. he was also a thief,
Copy !req
896. and something of a murderer.
Copy !req
897. I hope there was nothing
Copy !req
898. between you and this individual.
Copy !req
899. I trust you entirely.
Copy !req
900. No merit in that.
Copy !req
901. I've never had a chance
to lie to you.
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902. True enough.
Copy !req
903. Oblige me by seeing such people
as seldom as possible.
Copy !req
904. Actors, perhaps,
Copy !req
905. but thieves, murderers...
Copy !req
906. isn't that rather shocking?
Copy !req
907. Remember the young Scot you
challenged to a duel in Edinburgh?
Copy !req
908. I remember quite well. Why?
Copy !req
909. He wasn't nearly
as good a shot as you.
Copy !req
910. Of course.
Copy !req
911. Everyone knew it.
Copy !req
912. But you killed him anyway.
Copy !req
913. Feelings, Garance,
in an affair of honor...
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914. All because I smiled at him.
Copy !req
915. Yes.
Copy !req
916. In public, and frequently.
Copy !req
917. But I told you
I was thinking of another.
Copy !req
918. Please understand
how much I want your love.
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919. For yourself.
Copy !req
920. Don't torment me.
Copy !req
921. You know what I'd do for you,
because of you.
Copy !req
922. Because of me.
Copy !req
923. I love you as no man...
Copy !req
924. Could ever love me.
Copy !req
925. So why complain?
Copy !req
926. I want you to love me.
Copy !req
927. I do love you, my friend.
Copy !req
928. You're charming, rich, witty.
Copy !req
929. Friends admire you, others fear you.
Copy !req
930. You appeal to women.
Copy !req
931. Everyone loves you.
Copy !req
932. How could I not do the same?
Copy !req
933. Stop it.
Copy !req
934. You know what I desire,
what I want.
Copy !req
935. You're incredible.
Copy !req
936. Not only are you rich,
Copy !req
937. but you want to be loved
as if you were poor.
Copy !req
938. But what about the poor?
Copy !req
939. Be reasonable.
Don't deprive them of everything.
Copy !req
940. Understand me...
Copy !req
941. I do.
Copy !req
942. And I'll continue to do
my best to please you.
Copy !req
943. But don't ask the impossible.
Copy !req
944. However, if you like,
Copy !req
945. if it makes you happy,
Copy !req
946. tomorrow all Paris will know
I'm mad about you.
Copy !req
947. Yes, mad.
Copy !req
948. I'll shout it from the rooftops.
Copy !req
949. But to you, privately, my friend,
Copy !req
950. I say this:
Copy !req
951. I loved a man,
and I still love him.
Copy !req
952. I came back to Paris to see him.
Copy !req
953. He let me know he'd forgotten me.
Copy !req
954. All I can think of now
Copy !req
955. is to leave once again, to get away.
Copy !req
956. Come in.
Copy !req
957. Your dinner, Mr. Baptiste.
Copy !req
958. Thank you, but I'm not hungry.
Copy !req
959. You're being unreasonable.
Copy !req
960. True, I'm unreasonable.
Copy !req
961. Shutting yourself up like a monk.
Copy !req
962. Monks pray.
Copy !req
963. I sleep, I dream.
Copy !req
964. Everyone's looking for you.
Copy !req
965. Hardly everyone.
Copy !req
966. The Funambules is closed.
Copy !req
967. Your wife, your son, your father,
Copy !req
968. the whole troupe...
Copy !req
969. you can't just forget them like that.
Copy !req
970. But I couldn't go on living
like an idiot in an asylum,
Copy !req
971. with everyone around me whispering,
Copy !req
972. "What's wrong? Is he ill?"
Copy !req
973. I even saw a doctor
to make them happy.
Copy !req
974. What did he say?
Copy !req
975. That I was fit as a fiddle.
Copy !req
976. "Mild depression, overwork.
It's nothing."
Copy !req
977. And his prescription?
Copy !req
978. "Go see Baptiste.
Copy !req
979. That will cheer you up."
Copy !req
980. What if I don't want to cheer up?
Copy !req
981. What's today?
Copy !req
982. Thursday.
Copy !req
983. Tonight's the premiere
of Othello, with Mr. Frederick.
Copy !req
984. You should go.
Copy !req
985. It will cheer you up.
Copy !req
986. Oh, sorry.
Copy !req
987. Othello would make
a nice pantomime.
Copy !req
988. A man kills his beloved
Copy !req
989. and it kills him, poor man.
Copy !req
990. A sad, absurd tale,
like so many others.
Copy !req
991. Like mine or yours, Madame Hermine.
Copy !req
992. You spend your empty days
in your empty rooms
Copy !req
993. with your poor empty heart.
Copy !req
994. It's all so absurd and sad.
Copy !req
995. Like me.
Copy !req
996. Years ago, I stood here by this bed,
Copy !req
997. in this very room.
Copy !req
998. And she stood there, smiling, happy,
Copy !req
999. so lovely in the fresh night air.
Copy !req
1000. And she said,
Copy !req
1001. "Love is so simple."
Copy !req
1002. And I didn't listen.
Copy !req
1003. I didn't take her in my arms.
Copy !req
1004. I set conditions:
Copy !req
1005. "Love me as I love you."
Copy !req
1006. And I shut the door,
Copy !req
1007. forever, between my love and me.
Copy !req
1008. What are you doing here?
Copy !req
1009. I'm talking to myself.
Not to you.
Copy !req
1010. Forgive me.
Copy !req
1011. I didn't mean to be unpleasant.
Copy !req
1012. You've helped me
and been so discreet.
Copy !req
1013. It's only natural.
Copy !req
1014. I can't...
Copy !req
1015. I can't stay here any longer.
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1016. All alone.
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1017. I have to get out. I have to walk.
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1018. Did he eat?
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1019. He Will.
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1020. Good.
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1021. Thank you for telling me.
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1022. I was so anxious.
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1023. It's only natural, between women.
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1024. He needs to be alone.
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1025. We mustn't disturb him.
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1026. He's not like other men.
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1027. Of course not.
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1028. He's like a sleepwalker on a roof.
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1029. If you call him, he falls.
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1030. That's Baptiste.
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1031. We mustn't call him.
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1032. We have to leave him,
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1033. wait until he's calm
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1034. and wakes on his own.
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1035. When he wakes,
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1036. he'll come back.
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1037. Get me some poison, Iago, this night.
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1038. I'll not expostulate with her
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1039. lest her body and beauty
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1040. unprovide my mind again.
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1041. Do it not with poison.
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1042. Strangle her in her bed,
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1043. even the bed she hath contaminated.
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1044. Let her rot
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1045. and perish
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1046. and be damned tonight,
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1047. for she shall not live.
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1048. Such savagery
and lack of decorum.
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1049. I can't say I like
this Mr. Shakespeare.
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1050. True, one goes to the theatre today
not for the play,
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1051. but for the actors.
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1052. Don't forget, my friend,
you insisted on coming.
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1053. No doubt I had my reasons.
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1054. Hang her.
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1055. I do but say what she is.
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1056. The pity of it, Iago.
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1057. The pity of it.
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1058. May I?
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1059. Of course.
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1060. "Desdemona came tonight.
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1061. Othello is no longer jealous
He is cured. Thank you."
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1062. You see?
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1063. I assure you, you're wrong.
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1064. Naturally, I'm wrong
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1065. and you're innocent.
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1066. Othello, too.
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1067. Please tell me the truth.
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1068. Is it him?
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1069. No, my friend, it's not him.
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1070. That handkerchief which
I so loved and gave thee
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1071. thou gavest to Cassio.
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1072. No, by my life and soul.
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1073. Send for the man and ask him.
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1074. Sweet soul,
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1075. take heed.
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1076. Take heed of perjury:
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1077. Thou art on thy deathbed.
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1078. easily said,
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1079. and just as easily done.
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1080. WW do you laugh?
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1081. Because if we duel in the morning
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1082. he won't be here to talk of death
in the evening.
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1083. You're mad.
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1084. Why should you care,
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1085. if it's not him you love?
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1086. Kill me tomorrow:
Let me live tonight.
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1087. Nay, if you strive...
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1088. But half an hour.
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1089. Being done, there is no pause.
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1090. But while I say one prayer.
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1091. It is too late.
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1092. The play's not over.
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1093. We're just going to the foyer.
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1094. I really must congratulate
this remarkable actor.
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1095. If you do, I'll never see you again.
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1096. Nor him either, for that matter.
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1097. Come.
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1098. Where?
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1099. I don't know. Anywhere.
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1100. Monsieur, you play
the bloodthirsty brute so naturally.
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1101. You're too kind.
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1102. I merely played him
as Shakespeare wrote him,
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1103. as naturally as possible.
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1104. A peculiar fellow,
this Mr. Shakespeare.
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1105. I hear he made his literary debut
as a butcher's apprentice.
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1106. Why not?
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1107. Which would explain
the bestial nature of his plays,
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1108. and his popularity among
dockers and carters.
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1109. And kings.
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1110. I see why I found this play
so distasteful and shocking.
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1111. I'll buy my coachman a seat.
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1112. It's worth trying.
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1113. Then allow me to offer you a box
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1114. for your horses.
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1115. "It's worth trying."
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1116. I thought you'd forgotten me.
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1117. I thought I'd lost you forever.
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1118. I've never forgotten you.
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1119. You were even in my dreams.
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1120. You saved me from growing old,
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1121. dull and used up.
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1122. My life was so empty.
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1123. I felt so alone.
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1124. I kept thinking
I had no right to be sad
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1125. because someone loved me.
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1126. But I still love you.
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1127. I always have.
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1128. And do you love...
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1129. Don't answer.
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1130. I won't ask for anything.
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1131. You're here.
That's all that matters.
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1132. Here, alive in my arms,
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1133. like the first time.
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1134. I ask for nothing.
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1135. Only...
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1136. the warmth of your body against mine,
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1137. that mouth of yours.
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1138. Those eyes of yours.
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1139. My compliments.
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1140. You were superb.
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1141. May I introduce...
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1142. No need.
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1143. We met once before.
One time too often.
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1144. Amusing.
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1145. These gentlemen seek a quarrel
with me,
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1146. all very politely, I admit.
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1147. We all must kill time in some way.
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1148. Gentlemen, you're wrong
about my friend here.
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1149. I haven't known him long,
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1150. but in his way,
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1151. he's a remarkable fellow,
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1152. and not lacking in talent.
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1153. All kinds of talents, no doubt.
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1154. It takes all kinds to make a world,
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1155. or unmake it.
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1156. Amusing.
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1157. An amusing pleasantry.
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1158. Quite.
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1159. You really find him amusing?
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1160. Then let us amuse ourselves.
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1161. Besides, we run no risk.
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1162. The gentleman doesn't duel.
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1163. Absolutely not.
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1164. How do you exercise your talents
these days?
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1165. Since you ask,
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1166. I'm putting the finishing touches
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1167. to something
that will cause a sensation.
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1168. A tragedy, no doubt.
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1169. A comedy, a farce.
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1170. Or a tragedy, if you prefer.
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1171. It's all the same.
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1172. There's no difference.
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1173. Or so little.
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1174. For example, if a king is deceived,
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1175. it's a tragedy of infidelity.
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1176. He's deceived not by his wife...
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1177. But by Fate.
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1178. Yes, Fate.
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1179. But if it's a poor devil
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1180. like you or me,
Monsieur de Montray...
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1181. and I use "me"
as a figure of speech...
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1182. it's no longer a tragedy,
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1183. but mere buffoonery,
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1184. a sorry tale of cuckolds.
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1185. Yet it's the same wood
under the pauper's cap
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1186. or the king's crown.
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1187. The dead wood of love
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1188. rotting in the heads of the unloved.
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1189. Always the same matter,
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1190. the same stories, the same tears.
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1191. So the genre is nothing.
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1192. My play need only amuse.
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1193. Starting with the author.
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1194. - If it's performed.
- Don't worry, gentlemen.
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1195. It will be.
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1196. It's in progress as we speak.
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1197. If you'd like a role...
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1198. Very funny.
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1199. It is very funny.
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1200. But, I warn you, there are murders,
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1201. and at the final curtain,
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1202. the dead won't rise for a bow.
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1203. This man is a bore.
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1204. Shall we throw him out?
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1205. Good idea.
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1206. Don't try to humiliate me.
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1207. I'm not some character
out of a farce.
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1208. But you are.
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1209. And I'll prove it.
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1210. What have you done?
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1211. It doesn't concern you.
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1212. Gentlemen, I've just savored
a most exquisite moment.
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1213. Too bad for you.
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1214. I said I wasn't a man
to be thrown out with impunity.
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1215. Again, this doesn't concern you.
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1216. How do you know?
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1217. Jealousy belongs to all
if a woman belongs to none.
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1218. They're going to duel.
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1219. Because of us?
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1220. Because of me.
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1221. But not before tomorrow.
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1222. So?
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1223. We have the night before us,
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1224. with us,
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1225. for us.
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1226. If I'm not at home,
I'll be at the baths,
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1227. where I'll be expecting...
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1228. My seconds.
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1229. You do me a great honor
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1230. sending to the next world
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1231. a man who is not part of yours.
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1232. You see here a man who's been ousted,
unceremoniously.
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1233. But the mere thought of them
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1234. killing one another over a woman,
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1235. because of me,
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1236. comforts me.
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1237. So we'll be seconds again?
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1238. I doubt we'll be asked this time.
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1239. Too bad. I like duels.
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1240. That can be arranged.
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1241. If not a duel,
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1242. you may be witness to something else.
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1243. Because in this affair of honor
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1244. I, Lacenaire, am the offended party.
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1245. Offended, insulted, even humiliated,
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1246. because they threw me out,
ignominiously.
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1247. How lovely the moonlight is.
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1248. Look.
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1249. It's shining for us,
like that first night.
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1250. And like that first night,
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1251. the window is wide open.
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1252. It's wonderful.
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1253. Everything is the same.
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1254. Nothing has changed.
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1255. The table in the same place.
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1256. The bed I slept in.
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1257. You haven't changed either.
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1258. The same gentleness in your voice.
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1259. The same light in your eyes.
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1260. A little glimmer.
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1261. Your heart beating against my hand.
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1262. You were right.
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1263. Love is so simple.
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1264. Carnival time.
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1265. Life is beautiful.
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1266. A bath, gentlemen?
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1267. We merely wish to see
Count de Montray.
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1268. At this hour? He's resting.
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1269. He's expecting us.
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1270. In that case,
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1271. please follow me.
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1272. What is it?
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1273. Two gentlemen.
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1274. They say you're expecting them.
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1275. Two gentlemen.
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1276. Show them in.
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1277. My poor Avril.
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1278. The play is over.
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1279. You can go now.
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1280. You'd be wise to go
to the country for a while.
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1281. What about you?
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1282. Me. I'm staying here.
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1283. I won't risk losing my head
to a country executioner.
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1284. Absolutely not.
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1285. It was a wonderful night.
But I must go.
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1286. I can't let Frederick die
because of me.
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1287. What will you do?
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1288. Find Edouard.
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1289. Tell him I lost my head.
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1290. I'll beg him not to duel.
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1291. Will he listen?
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1292. Yes.
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1293. If I say I love him,
and him alone.
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1294. You're incapable of lying.
He won't believe you.
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1295. He doesn't care if it's not true.
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1296. I know him.
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1297. All he really wants
is to hear me say it.
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1298. What matters is not that I love him,
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1299. but that I love no one else.
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1300. That's love to him.
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1301. What if he asks you
to leave with him?
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1302. I'll go.
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1303. Perhaps I'll come back.
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1304. I'd have to leave someday.
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1305. Why?
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1306. You know why.
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1307. You have a sweet little boy.
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1308. Stop it.
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1309. You love your little boy,
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1310. and you love your work.
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1311. And Nathalie.
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1312. It's you I love.
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1313. - Wait here and be good.
- Will you be long?
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1314. No, I'll come back for you.
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1315. What for?
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1316. It's a surprise.
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1317. Don't leave me.
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1318. I can't bear it.
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1319. What about me? I have only you.
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1320. Excuse me.
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1321. I came by...
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1322. I thought you'd be alone.
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1323. All alone.
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1324. You see, it's carnival today.
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1325. Our son was so happy.
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1326. So I came by...
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1327. He's dressed as a hussar.
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1328. A lovely hussar uniform.
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1329. Please don't let me
stand here like this.
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1330. It's awful.
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1331. Talk to me at least.
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1332. Answer me. Say something.
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1333. Anything.
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1334. Tell me to go away, laugh in my face.
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1335. Is that all you can say?
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1336. I really must go.
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1337. Again.
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1338. How easy it must be.
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1339. How easy what must be?
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1340. Easy to go, then come back.
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1341. You go. You're missed.
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1342. Time works for you.
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1343. Then you come back,
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1344. embellished by memory.
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1345. That must be easy.
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1346. But to stay and live with someone,
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1347. share his everyday life...
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1348. that's something else.
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1349. You can't fight that.
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1350. I've lived with him for six years.
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1351. So have I.
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1352. You, too?
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1353. Me, too.
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1354. Anywhere, everywhere, every day.
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1355. And every night.
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1356. All those nights
spent at another's side,
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1357. I was with him.
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1358. Let her finish.
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1359. I want to know everything
about you two,
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1360. know what's left for me.
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1361. If there's enough to live on.
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1362. What do I care if you love him?
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1363. You don't count.
You don't exist for me.
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1364. Listen to me.
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1365. Answer me.
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1366. I'm not afraid to suffer.
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1367. Everybody suffers.
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1368. But I must know.
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1369. Tell me now.
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1370. Without thinking about it.
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1371. Look at me.
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1372. Were you always thinking of her
while living with me?
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1373. You don't dare answer.
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1374. But your silence tells me
a lot of things,
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1375. things I do understand.
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1376. Answer me.
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1377. Were you always thinking of her?
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1378. Answer me. Even at night?
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1379. What about me?
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1380. What about me?
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1381. The game's up. Time to go home.
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1382. Let me go.
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1383. For shame.
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1384. As sure as I'm called Old Maid,
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1385. Wise Counsel, Prim and Proper,
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1386. for my sense of morality.
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1387. Let go. You make me sick.
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1388. Out of my way.
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