Lorrenna.
My dear uncle, what is to be done in this emergency?
Knickerbocker.
Done! your fortune is done for: but if you ever want a cent whilst I have one, may I be sent to the devil, that's all.
Gustaffe.
[Entering.] Bravo! Nunkey Knickerbocker! you are no blind pilot. Awake to breakers and quicksand, Knickerbocker.
Knickerbocker.
Knickerbocker! the honourable Mr. Knickerbocker, if you please; I'm now a member of the Legislature and, curse me, if I'd change my dignified station as representative of an independent people, for that of the proudest potentate who holds supremacy by corruption or the bayonet. [Exeunt.