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When Hamlet went
        into the castle, 1-Ioratio
        asked him, 'What did
         the Ghost say?'
         'I cannot tell you,
         my friend,' Hamlet
         answered. '.And nobody
        must know about the                                                                 Just then, a <loor opened and a girl looked
         Ghost, so please, say                                                              out. It was Ophelia, the daughter of the
        nothing about tonight.                                                              king's servant, Polonius.
         And now go. I must be                                                               'Helio, who's there?' Ophelia called.
                                                                                             'Oh Hamlet, it's you, my love. I could hear
                                                                                             you ... but who are you talking to?'


            ,  a  v1  ain  a
         tbought. 'I must kill
         suddenly thought, '.A













                                                                                           Hamlet looked at Ophelia with mad
                                                                                            eyes. 'Me?' be said, 'I'm not talking.
                                                                                            Ah ... Ophelia, helio! You're not my
                                                                                            girlfriend - I don't love any woman.
         'Oh yes,' thought Hamlet, 'I can      'Pcrhaps I can talk to my mother.            My father is dead. My mother is bad.
         pretend to be mad. I can play the     What does she know about my                  And I have many things to do.'
         mad man and say mad things, and       father's death? Oh no - does she             '.Are you OK, Hamlet?' Ophelia
         watch Claudius.'                      know everything?'                           asked. 'Would you like sorne water?'

                                                                                                                                'No! But I must kill someone,'
       pretend  to do things to make   mad  not thinking well                             servant  a man or woman who works
       people think that something is true   death  when someone stops living             for someone rich                      Hamlet said, and he ran out of
       when it isn't                                                                                                            Ophelia's room.


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