Terrapin! Ah, dame, I leaves you to go the whole hog, but hark'ee, my lovey, before you go, won't you return de leetle bottle which you manage to get from me [last night]?[57]
Dame.
Odds bodikins, and pins! A man already drunk, and asking for more liquor! You sha'n't have a drop, you sot, that you shall not. The bottle indeed! not you, eh! faith!
[Exit with Alice.
Rip.
[Tunder][58] take me if I don't [think][59] but what she has [finished][60] it herself, and dat's de fact. My nose always sniffs like a terrier's; 'tis in de cupboard, her Hollands;—so, here goes to nibble.
Music.—Rip opens the closet door cautiously, and is rummaging for a bottle, when he treads on Knickerbocker, who roars out lustily. Rip, in his sudden alarm, upsets the [porcelain and glass];[61] and, falling, rolls into the middle of the chamber, quaking in every limb, and vociferating loudly.
Rip.
Help! murder! fire! thieves!
Knickerbocker, [in the interim][62], darts out of the closet, and, [beyond the consciousness of future proceeding][63], throws himself into the arm-chair.—Alice, entering hastily, throws a cloak over him, which hides him from observation.—Dame enters, alarmed.