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THE DARK CHAMBER
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our instructions. But now you can go and join the festivities in the royal arbour with all possible splendour and magnificence. [They go out.

Enter Grandfather and a band of people

First Citizen

Grandfather, I cannot help saying—yes, and repeating it five hundred times—that our King is a perfect fraud.

Grandfather

Why only five hundred times? There is no need to practise such heroic self-control—you can say it five thousand times if that adds to your pleasure.

Second Citizen

But you cannot keep up a dead lie forever.