Enter Counsellor Selling.
Sell. Oh, dear Sir, what shall we do now? I have read that Benniger such a lecture, and taken the money ad depositum. But, good heaven! that fellow is a wild ferocious beast. He says, it is a bargain; that the receiver is the thief, and not the bidder. He insists on having the patent for the monopoly dispatched; if not, he swears he will play the deuce.
Reiss. So much the better; let him do his best.
Sell. Ah, but, dear Sir, he does not say a word against the Privy Counsellor; you and I are the scape-goats; every nerve trembles.
Reiss. So you are quite alarmed?
Sell. Truly.
Reiss. The rogue intended to bribe, and of course is liable to a heavy punishment.
Sell. But then he is a stranger.
Reiss. Have him arrested, then he can do no harm.
Sell. But he can talk a good deal for all that.