Can you remember the place twenty years ago ?" "Can I?
I can remember forty years." "I wonder," broke in Roger, too impatient to allow his tutor to lead up gradually to the inevitable question, "if you can remember some English players coming over here about eighteen years ago and acting a play called _Hamlet_ in English." The landlord blew a cloud of smoke from his lips, and stared round at the speaker as if he had been a ghost.
"Why do you ask me that?
_'Amlet_! Can I forget it ?" Here was a bolt out of the blue! The tutor's eye-glass dropped with a clatter against his cup, and Roger fetched a breath half gasp, half sigh.
"You remember it!" exclaimed he, seizing the man's hand; "do you know, we have been a fortnight in Boulogne trying to find some one who did!" "Would not _you_ remember it," replied the Frenchman, with a gesticulation, "if 'Amlet had put up at your inn and gone away without paying his bill ?" "Did one of the actors stay here, then ?" "One?
There was twenty 'Amlets, and Miladi 'Amlets, and Mademoiselle 'Amlets.

They all stay here, _en famille_.

The house is full of 'Amlets.

The stable is full.

They bring with them a castle of 'Amlet, and a grave of 'Amlet.