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Chapter 26

Entering his own room on the upper floor, Henry placed the manuscript on his table,

opened at the first leaf.

His nerves are unquestionably shaken.

His hand trembled as he turned the pages.

He started at chance noises on the staircase of the hotel.

The scenario, or outline of the Countess's play,

began with no formal, prephatory phrases.

She presented herself and her work

with the easy familiarity of an old friend.

Allow me, dear Mr. Francis Westwick,

to introduce to you the persons in my proposed play,

behold them arranged symmetrically in a line.

My Lord, the Baron, the Courier, the Doctor, the Countess.

I don't trouble myself, you see, to invest fictitious family names.

My characters are sufficiently distinguished by their social titles

and by the striking contrast, which they present one with another.

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