Lesson 22

By heart

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  • Lesson 22
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  • By heart
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  • Which actor read the letter in the end, the aristocrat or the gaoler?
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  • Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end.
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  • In many ways, this is unfortunate for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night.
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  • One would expect them to know their parts by heart and never have cause to falter.
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  • Yet this is not always the case.
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  • A famous actor in a highly successful play
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  • was once cast in the role of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years.
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  • In the last act, a gaoler would always come on to the stage with a letter which he would hand to the prisoner.
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  • Even though the noble was expected to read the letter at each performance,
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  • he always insisted that it should be written out in full.
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  • One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke on his colleague to find out if,
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  • after so many performances, he had managed to learn the contents of the letter by heart.
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  • The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell.
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  • Just then, the gaoler appeared with the precious letter in his hands.
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  • He entered the cell and presented the letter to the aristocrat.
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  • But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full as usual.
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  • It was simply a blank sheet of paper.
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  • The gaoler looked on eagerly, anxious to see if his fellow actor had at last learnt his lines.
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  • The noble stared at the blank sheet of paper for a few seconds.
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  • Then, squinting his eyes, he said: 'The light is dim. Read the letter to me.'
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  • And he promptly handed the sheet of paper to the gaoler.
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  • Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either,
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  • the gaoler replied: 'The light is indeed dim, sire. I must get my glasses. '
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  • With this, he hurried off the stage.
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  • Much to the aristocrat's amusement,
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  • the gaoler returned a few moments later
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  • with a pair of glasses and the usual copy of the letter which he proceeded to read to the prisoner.