Sgan. ( within the house ) Drunkard that you are! I will teach you how to behave.——He may well look down! He feels he has done wrong, the good-for-nothing scoundrel! Ah, the hypocrite, how he pretends to be good!
Gr.-Re. ( to Gorgibus ). Sir, do ask him, just for fun, to make his brother show himself at the window.
Gor. Very well. Sir, pray make your brother show himself at the window.
Sgan. ( from the window ). He is unworthy of being seen by honourable people; and, besides, I could not bear to have him by the side of me.
Gor. Sir, do not refuse me this favour, after all those you have granted me.
Sgan. ( from the window ). Truly, Mr. Gorgibus, you have so much power over me that I can refuse you nothing. Show yourself, scoundrel! ( after having disappeared one moment, he reappears as a valet. ) Mr. Gorgibus, I am so much indebted to you. ( Disappears, and reappears again as doctor. ) Well, did you see that picture of drunkenness?
Gr.-Re. ( to Gorgibus). I know they are but one, and to prove it, tell him that you want to see them both together.
Gor. But grant me the favour of showing yourself with him, and of embracing him at the window before me.
Sgan. ( from the window ). It is a thing I would refuse to any one but you; but, to show you that I would do anything for your sake, I consent, though with difficulty, and I wish that he should first ask you to forgive him for the trouble he has given you.——Yes, Mr. Gorgibus, I beg your pardon for having troubled you so much; and I promise you, my brother, in the presence of Mr. Gorgibus, to be so careful in future that you will never have reason to complain. I beg of you not to think any more of what is past ( he kisses his hat and his ruff, which he has put at the end of his elbow ).
Gor. Well, did you not see them both?