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PERSONS OF THE PLAY 
 
GRANDFATHER OSSORY (eighty-one)  
ALFRED OSSORY (fifty), his son, a shipowner  
EMILY OSSORY (forty-five), his wife  
EUPHEMIA OSSORY (eighteen), his daughter  
CHARLEY OSSORY (ten), his son  
GEORGE DELHOMME (twenty-four), of the ministry of Foreign Affairs  
DIONYSUS CARR (thirty-four), Professor of Experimental Eugenics in the 
University of Tübingen ;  and  
MR. TODD  
 
THOMAS, a footman  
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