will send the children to the hospital to
receive a christian education, and to be instructed, and I will--

_Clar._ To what hospital?

_Reiss._ To ours, of which I am the director, and you a trustee.

_Clar._ That will not do.

_Reiss._ If it be our will---

_Clar._ It must not be our will.

_Reiss._ Who is to oppose us?

_Clar._ The rules of the foundation itself; right and equity. The
hospital, _ad Sanctum Mauritium_, is destined for the old and the sick;
we must not displace them. No, I will carry on the suit against you as
an unlawful heir.--

_Reiss._ Aye, thou good Lord in heaven! the will is so plain--

_Clar._ If I am cast, I will take Brunnig's children into my house, and
then I will immediately engage in more business, employ more hands, and
work hard to accomplish my design, with the aid of heaven.

_Reiss._ But your son, the deputy, approves of the children being sent
to the hospital.

_Clar._ I do not approve of it.

_Reiss._ Your son is a sensible learned man, who most certainly knows--

_Clar._ And I have spent a good deal on him too.

_Reiss._ And a just man too he is.

_Clar._ That is his duty.

_Reiss._ And as these children may be taken care of in another manner,
why would you, at your time of life, burthen yourself with more
trouble? You have now toiled long enough, and to your credit too: now
you should rest, and leave off business.

_Clar._ God forbid!

_Reiss._ Your son will not give up that point, I tell you: as a good
son, he will lead his father to honour.

_Clar._ To honour? And what honour do I want, pray? I am a good
workman, have sufficient to live on, employ fifteen people daily; share
my earnings with many a poor man, and have a good conscience. What
honour can he add to what I have?

_Reiss._ This very moment it is in agitation, to elect you mayor of our
town. That is as good as settled, only--

_Clar._ No, Sir! I will not listen to that. I am quite well, when
governed; and might not be so, if I were to govern others.

_Reiss._ But consider, how happy many a man would feel, if he--

_Clar._ Oh yes! I know well enough: many a man would wish to govern
now-a-days; but not I. I intend to remain reigning master-carpenter in
my own house and timber-yard.

_Reiss._ But perhaps your son might form connections--

_Clar._ A fig for every connection; cannot he form connections unless
his father be mayor?

_Reiss._ The world has its prejudices--

_Clar._ Not I.