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 HAMLET
  What, looked he frowningly?
HAMLET
Was he frowning?
 HORATIO
                                                  A countenance more
230 In sorrow than in anger.
HORATIO
He looked more sad than angry.
 HAMLET
                                  Pale or red?
HAMLET
Was he pale or flushed and red-faced?
 HORATIO
  Nay, very pale.
HORATIO
Very pale, sir.
 HAMLET
                  And fixed his eyes upon you?
HAMLET
Did he stare at you?
 HORATIO
  Most constantly.
HORATIO
The whole time.
 HAMLET
  I would I had been there.
HAMLET
I wish I'd been there.
 HORATIO
  It would have much amazed you.
HORATIO
You would have been very shocked.
 HAMLET
235 Very like. Stayed it long?
HAMLET
I'm sure I would have. Did it stay a long time?
 HORATIO
  While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
HORATIO
About as long as it would take someone to count slowly to a hundred.
 MARCELLUS, BARNARDO
  Longer, longer.
MARCELLUS, BARNARDO
No, longer than that.
 HORATIO
  Not when I saw 't.
HORATIO
Not the time I saw it.
 HAMLET
  His beard was grizzled, no?
HAMLET
His beard was gray, right?
 HORATIO
240 It was, as I have seen it in his life,
  A sable silvered.
HORATIO
It was just like in real life, dark brown with silver whiskers in it.
 HAMLET
                  I will watch tonight. Perchance
  'Twill walk again.
HAMLET
I'll stand guard with you tonight. Maybe it'll come again.
 HORATIO
                  I warrant it will.
HORATIO
I bet it will.

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