Dame.
I'm so alarmed—so agitated, that—Alice, put your hand into my pocket and you'll find a bottle. [Alice produces a bottle.
Rip.
[Aside.] A leetle bottle! Oh, dat's de [private][65] cupboard. Alice, let me hold de leetle bottle, whilst you fetch a glass for the old woman. [Alice, hastening off, brings a wine-glass, which Rip fills and gives to Dame.
Rip.
Here's your [go-to-hell],[66] and your family's and may you live long and [prosper][67]. [Drinks from the bottle; Alice, in the interim, proceeds to the closet and brings Knickerbocker out, who is making for the door, when, hearing some one approach, he again escapes to his retreat.
Alice.
[At door.] Oh, aunt! aunt! here's the burgomaster coming up the garden.
Dame.
Odds bodikins and pins! the burgomaster! what's to be done now? Coming for the rent! What's to be done now, I say?