Knickerbocker.
It's a lie! Hum!—
Judge.
Restrain this violence! a court of justice must not be swayed by such proceedings.
Herman.
Behold! sir, a picture of their general effrontery. In a public tribunal to threaten those, who, in pleading their own rights, but advocate the cause of justice.
Lorrenna.
[Comes down stage.] All my hopes vanish—bleak and dreary is the perspective.
Herman.
[Advances.] At last I triumph! Now, lady, your hand or your inheritance.