_Conrad._ Enough! I from the unequal contest cease; My heart is broken, but I’ll _keep the peace_; And, since yours is the victory, I’ll be calm. Thus I give up her hand, and yield the palm. _Medora._ Say we part friends. _Conrad._ We do, though grief oppressing. [_Weeping and joining their hands._ Take her, be happy--take a Corsair’s blessing. _Pasha._ Thanks! you are free--you now may cut, and when You have cut, mind, you needn’t come again. _Conrad._ Fear not. _Gul._ [_Aside to him._] Return at midnight--you can save her, And also do me a great wedding favor. _Conrad._ Farewell! away my lonely course I take. You needn’t trouble to send cards or cake. [_Exit, L._ _Pasha._ Quick, slaves! make preparation, though ’tis late; This evening we’ll the nuptials celebrate. Bright garlands on the walls of every room stick, And bid the priest prepare the wedding broomstick. [_Exeunt SYNG SMAUL and GUARDS, L._ _Gul._ Come, madam, to your room let me conduct you. [_Aside._] Then of my plans more fully I’ll instruct you. _Medora._ Come, come. [_Exeunt MEDORA and GULNARE, R._ _Enter SYNG SMAUL and Guards, L._ _Pasha._ How now, slave? _Syng._ Sire, the broomstick’s ready, The priest awaits. _Pasha._ Down, throbbing heart--be steady! Oh, happiness! soon I my wife shall call her. She comes. _Enter GULNARE, veiled, followed by WOMEN, R._ Holloa! it strikes me she’s grown taller. _Gul._ Sire, can you wonder that I taller stand, Now you’ve made me the highest in the land? _Pasha._ Accept this ring; for ever thus united---- Shall we proceed? _Gul._ Sire, I shall be delighted. [_Wedding March. Exeunt in procession, L._ _Enter MEDORA, R._ _Medora._ Saved! Saved! Gulnare will marry, in my stead. Blessed land, where veils are worn upon the head, Screening the face, secure from all beholders-- Instead of bonnets half way down the shoulders! But for that fashion, all our plans would fail: Nought can succeed, when its without _avail_. They come! [_Exit, R._ _March repeated. Re-enter PASHA, GULNARE; LADIES dancing before them, bearing flowers, &c.; SYNG SMAUL, GUARDS, &c., L._