[Exit R. at back.
Is this the way I am treated? and not a servant!
Flora! Come, Flora! Flora! is no one awake?
Enter (L.) St. Nicholas hurriedly, half-dressed, carrying suits of clothes, a dressing-case, etc.
D. Stay, sir! where go you?
ST. NICHOLAS.
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Fire! fire! The palace is on fire! Fly, fly!
D. Stay, sir, I say: the house is not on fire.
N. Where is the fire? Mercy! O, heaven save me!