Herman.
[Solus.] True; the honest lawyer lives by his reputation, and therefore pauses to undertake a cause he knows unjust: but how easily are some duped. Can my father for a moment suppose that the rank weeds of youth are so easily uprooted? No! what is to be done, good father of mine, but to serve myself? young men of the present generation cannot live without the means of entering into life's varieties and this supply will henceforth enable me to do so, to the fullest extent of my ambitious wishes. [Exit.
Footnotes
[46.] “and Herman” in K. The scene, which is different, runs as follows:
Herman. Lecture me as much as you will, father, if at the close of your sermon you are prepared to supply me with the money that I need.
Derric. Money! that is eternally your cry. Your extravagances have almost ruined and soon will dishonour me. Oh! I am but justly punished for my mad indulgence of a son who was born only to be my bane and curse.
Herman. If you could but invent some fresh terms for my reproach! such frequent repetition becomes, I assure you, very wearisome.
Derric. You have caused me to plunge into debt, and I am now pursued by a host of creditors.
Herman. We must find a way to quiet them. And for the money I now require—
Derric. Not another dollar do you obtain from me. Already, to supply your cravings, I have misappropriated some of the public money, and I must replace it soon if I would avert the shame and degradation with which I now am threatened.