Of course! (Exit SENDEN.) The election day is unendurable! In no fight in my life did I have this feeling of fear. It is a mean cannon-fever of which any ensign might be ashamed. And it is a long time since I was an ensign!
[Stamping his foot.]
Confound it!
[Goes to rear of stage.]
IDA (coming forward with ADELAIDE).
This uncertainty is frightful. Only one thing is sure, I shall be unhappy whichever way this election turns out.
[Leans on ADELAIDE.]
ADELAIDE.
Courage! Courage, little girl! Things may still turn out all right. Hide your anxiety from your father; he is in a state of mind, as it is, that does not please me at all.
Enter BLUMENBERG in haste; the COLONEL rushes toward him.