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The licence for the production of his French Play of _Salomé_,
accepted by SARAH B., having been refused by the Saxon Licenser of
Plays, The O'SCAR, dreams of becoming a French Citizen, but doesn't
quite "see himself," at the beginning of his career, as a conscript in
the French Army, and so, to adapt the Gilbertian lines, probably--
"In spite of great temptation
To French na-tu-ra-li-sa-tion,
He'll remain an Irishman!"
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