"
(_Enter Graceless Private_.)
_Graceless Private_. "I will protect you. Get out, all you fellows."
(_They get out_.)
A flirtation between the Private and ESTELLE is at once begun, from
which it appears that she came to catch a glimpse of the Colonel, who
wants to marry her. She and the Private sit on the table, and fall
instantaneously in love. As soon as they are well in, the Lancers
return, and ESTELLE flies. Graceless Private, having no money, pays for
the co-inebriation of the entire corps, and while engaged in this
praiseworthy occupation is found by the Genial Artist, who makes him
promise to attend a ball at a neighboring _chateau_. Enter Kindly
Sergeant, who arrests the Graceless Private, and puts him in the
guard-house. Curtain falls amid faces from STODDART (without his usual
oath) and applause from the audience.
_Veteran Play-goer_. "Well, I've seen STODDART in every thing he has
played this year, and this is the first time he has failed to swear on
every ineligible occasion."
_Young Lady who frequents Wallack's_. "Who is that Clumsy Trumpeter? I
don't know him."
_Accompanying Young Man_. "Why, don't you know STODDART?"
_Young Lady_. "Nonsense; that isn't STODDART. Why, he hasn't sworn
once."
_Fast Young Man_. "STODDART isn't himself to-night.
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