Word: overheard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Charlot is to feign death, as though he had been killed in a drunken brawl. Genevote is to agree to marry Granger on condition of being allowed to go through the marriage ceremony with a supposed corpse first, and at the proper time Charlot is to resuscitate. Paquier has overheard the scheme, and the plan fails. As a last resort Corbineli makes the play he was ordered to prepare, a comedy in which Granger is induced to sign a supposedly sham contract between Charlot and Genevote, which is eventually proved to be genuine. The play ends with the happiness...
...remark accidentally overheard on the street a few days ago seems to us so interesting in the state of feeling that it revealed that we cannot but dwell on it for a moment. Two upper classmen were talking glumly of the outlook for their class eleven. "Why doesn't Blank come out?" said one. "He would brace that team wonderfully...