_) What _have_ I done?
WITH ANY AMAZEMENT
And are not afraid with any amazement.
--_Marriage service_.
SCENE.-_A bachelor's bedroom--toilet-table arranged with unnatural
neatness_. CAPTAIN GADSBY _asleep and snoring heavily. Time_, 10.30
A. M.--_a glorious autumn day at Simla. Enter delicately_ CAPTAIN
MAFFLIM of GADSBY'S regiment. Looks at sleeper, and shakes his head
murmuring 'Poor Gaddy.' Performs violent fantasia with hair-brushes
on chair-back_.
CAPT. M. Wake up, my sleeping beauty! (_Roars_.)
'Uprouse ye, then, my merry merry men!
It is our opening day!
It is our opening da-ay!'
Gaddy, the little dicky-birds have been billing and cooing for ever
so long; and I'm here!
CAPT. G. (_Sitting up and yawning_.) 'Mornin'. This is awf'ly good of
you, old fellow. Most awf'ly good of you. 'Don't know what I should
do without you. On my soul, I don't. 'Haven't slept a wink all night.
CAPT. M. I didn't get in till half-past eleven. 'Had a look at you
then, and you seemed to be sleeping as soundly as a condemned criminal.
CAPT. G. Jack, if you want to make those disgustingly worn-out jokes,
you'd better go away.
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