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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: complete with alleged stage, was engaged, and half the county
were blackmailed into taking tickets. There were only twelve
characters, of which we accounted for five, and it was arranged
that we should all twelve foregather four days beforehand, to
rehearse properly. The other seven artists were to stay with us
at White Ladies for the rehearsals and performance, and generally
till the affair had blown over.
It was ten days before the date of the production that I was cast
for Buckingham. Six days to become word perfect. When three of
them had gone, I explained to the others that, for all their
jealousy, they would find that I should succeed in getting into
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