I'll try my strength upon the door. Despair!

I might as soon uproot the eternal rocks

As force it open. Am I here a prisoner,

And no one in the house? no one at hand,

Or likely soon to be, to hear my cries?

Am I entombed alive? Horrible fate!

I sink—I faint beneath the bare conception!

[Awakes.] Darkness? Where am I? I remember, now,

This is a bag of ducats—'tis no dream—

No dream! The trap-door fell, and here am I