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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?'


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        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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