Elijah Booher - Light Opera 2

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The Yeoman of the Guard

Act II [SCENE.— The same— Moonlight.]

FFX

Well, Sergeant Meryll, and how fares thy pretty charge,Elsie Maynard?

MYL

Well enough, sir. She is quite strong again, and leaves us to-night.

FFX

Thanks to Dame Carruthers' kind nursing, eh?

MYL

Aye, deuce take the old witch! Ah, 'twas but a sorry trick you played me, sir, to bring the fainting girl to me. It gave the old lady an excuse for taking up her quarters in my house, and for the last two years I've shunned her like the plague. Another day of it and she would have married me!

Good Lord, here she is again! I'll e'en go.