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• The Sullivan scholar Gervase Hughes wrote, " Mabel . . . " must " be a coloratura because of'Poor wand'ring one !', yet'Dear father, why leave your bed'demands steady beauty of tone throughout the octave F to F, and'Ah, leave me not to pine'goes a third lower still . " In " The Music of Arthur Sullivan " ( 1959 ), Hughes quoted four extracts from " Pirates ", saying that if hearing each out of context one might attribute it to Schubert, Bizet respectively, " yet on learning the truth one would kick oneself for not having recognised Sullivan's touch in all four . " Hughes concluded by quoting the introductory bars of " When a felon's not engaged in his employment ", adding, " There could never be any doubt as to who wrote " that ", and it is as English as our wonderful police themselves ."