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Dialogue following No. 26.
Sergeant Pincher enters stealthily, as if searching for someone concealed. Kathleen, Nora, and Girls enter to him. Other soldiers follow the Sergeant. Terence enters.
Kathleen.
(to Sergeant) Are ye lookin' for anything - or anybody?
Sergeant.
Ess -- rebels. (Regarding Terence and Girls.) Be you a gatherin' o' rebels?
Terence.
No, we are a-gathering of mushrooms. Sir, you will no doubt think me very stupid, but what are you waiting here
for? And hadn't you better go away?
Sergeant.
Well, of awl the chubble-'eaded vules! We be under orders to wait for the Lord Lieutenant.
Terence.
Poor fellows! And at any moment the Fairy Cleena, who haunts this spot, may catch sight of you, and keep you here
for fifty years. What will Mary Hooper and Mary Cooper and Jane
Tucker and the rest of them think then?
Sergeant.
There be Mary Hooper and Mary Cooper and Jane Tucker and Emily Snugg and Susan Wickens -
Terence.
I know - I know. But where will they be in fifty years? What will become of them - and of you?
Sergeant.
Aw! I an't a-short nort about that!
Terence.
Poor fellows! Pawns in the game of government. Playthings of unprincipled politicians! Poor deluded, patient,
wooden soldiers!
Sergeant.
Eh?
Terence.
Listen. I wouldn't dishearten you for worlds, but - listen!
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