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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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