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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Listen!" he said. "The case shall be stated, and you shall answer me 'Yes' or 'No. Louise Vanderkelkov has fallen ill at least, so her ridiculous mother asserts. She is charged with a rôle; without that rôle the play stopped. Englishwomen are either the best or the worst of their sex. I apply to an Englishwoman to save me. What is her answer 'Yes, or 'No'?"
In less than five minutes they had thus revealed to me their characters, and in less than five minutes I had buckled on a breast-plate of steely indifference, and let down a visor of impassible austerity. "Take your pens and commence writing," said I, in as dry and trite a voice as if I had been addressing only Jules Vanderkelkov and Co. The dictee now commenced.
Silence and attention was the best balm to apply: I listened. "The whole matter is going to fail," he began. "Louise Vanderkelkov has fallen ill at least so her ridiculous mother asserts; for my part, I feel sure she might play if she would: it is only good-will that lacks. She was charged with a role, as you know, or do not know it is equal: without that role the play is stopped.
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