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Your silent matches,
Your dark-lautern seize ; Take your file and your skeleton keys? Pirates. With catlike tread, etc. Police. Tarantara, tarantara, etc. Regit. — Fred. Hush ! not a word ! I see a light inside. (^Looks through keyhole L.)
The major-general comes, so quickly hide. Major-Generai-. ( Without.) Yes, yes, the major-geueral
comes. Pi RATIOS. He comes I Major-Gexeral. {Entering in dressing-gown, carrying a
light.) Yes, yes, I come! Police. He comes I Major-General, Yes, yes, I come. All. The major-general comes !
Solo. — General. Tormented with the anguish dread
Of falsehood unatoned, I lay upon my sleepless bed,
xVnd tossed and turned and groaned. The man who finds his conscience ache
No peace at all enjoys ; And as I lay in bed awake I thought I heard a noise. Pirates. He thought he heard a noise !
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Police. He thought he heard a noise !
Tarantara-ra-ra ! General. No, all is still
In dale, on hill ; My mind is set at case. So still the scene It might have been Tbe sighing of the breeze.
Ballad. — Generai>.
Sighing softly to the river
Comes the lonely breeze, Setting Nature all a-quiver.
Rustling through the tre**.
Through the trees.
