Chapter 4

_Room in a Cottage._

CLEONI. Ah! Oh! my beloved, 'tis well!

LUCY. Hush! no more. I see it all.

CLEONI. Cans't thou see my mother?

LUCY. I cannest.

(_They suddenly rush into each other's arms, where they remain in two swoons; in the meanwhile the cottage is burned to the ground. Curtain falls for two minutes, and upon its rising the Ninth Regiment is discovered en bivouac on the ruins, its commander, the_ PRINCE, _reclining gracefully on the ground._)

(_Background, river Amazin, mouth wide open._) _Solo on the banjo, "Rest, Traveller, Rest_," by PAREPA ROSA.

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