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A Mummer’s Tale

CHAPTER X
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We shall rehearse till five.

I am playing to-night; I am playing to-morrow; on Sunday I play both afternoon and evening.

Work is never over for us actors; one is always beginning over again, always putting one's shoulder to the wheel." Adolphe Meunier, the poet, laying his hand on his shoulder said: "Everything going well, Romilly ?" "How are you getting on yourself, Meunier?
Always rolling the rock of Sisyphus.

That would be nothing, but success does not depend on us alone.

If the play is bad and falls flat, all that we have put into it, our work, our talent, a bit of our own life, collapses with it.


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