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While Fairfax's friend Sgt. Meryll and Meryll's amorous daughter Phoebe plot his escape, the convicted sorcerer resolves to deprive his kinsman of the pecuniary benefits of his treachery by wedding an unknown bride before his execution. The rescue comes too late to prevent the marriage of Fairfax to Elsie, who was previously affianced to the jester Jack Point. Once escaped, Fairfax unhappily finds himself "free, yet in fetters held," and the plot begins to unravel in usual Gilbert and Sullivan fashion...
...usual. There's something decidedly peculiar about a comic opera in which no one's final happiness is convincing. Of the three marriages in the show, two spring from coercion, and the third--the wedding of Fairfax and Elsie--originates as a strategem to defraud an undeserving kinsman, proceeds only through bribery of the bride and, most importantly, culminates in the rejection and desolation of two abundantly worthy suitors...
Bell was first on the scoreboard in the opening period, converting the efforts of George Hughes and Bill Hozack into a power play goal at 3:02 of the stanza as Yale's Brian Kinsman watched from the penalty...
Yale's last try to make it a game came eight minutes into the second period, when Dave McDonald combined with Brian Kinsman and Dave Harrington to bring the Elis within one. It was then time for Miller to get into his penalty act again, and he was stuck with a delay of game call at the 14:00 mark...
Never have I been more proud of a kinsman since my father told me about my grandfather (another Daniel in the lion's den), and Moynihan's granduncle, who told British ground-rent collection agents to "go to hell...