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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: company assembled there, "what will happen when they discover that
he isn't acting?"
But they never did discover it. Scaramouche's bewildered paralysis
lasted but a few seconds. He realized that he was being laughed at,
and remembered that his Scaramouche was a creature to be laughed
with, and not at. He must save the situation; twist it to his own
advantage as best he could. And now his real bewilderment and terror
was succeeded by acted bewilderment and terror far more marked, but
not quite so funny. He contrived to make it clearly appear that his
terror was of some one off the stage. He took cover behind a painted
shrub, and thence, the laughter at last beginning to subside, he
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