n iron wholesale.
_Clar._ Well; and--
_Grob._ And mean to settle here.
_Clar._ I wish you success.
_Grob._ But there is an other, who wishes to do the same,--one
Benninger.
_Clar._ Success to him likewise!
_Grob._ He is for having the monopoly of the article here.
_Clar._ If so, I look upon him in a bad point of view.
_Grob._ But it is very profitable. I have the same object in view. Your
son, the deputy, patronizes Mr. Benninger. But, if you would speak in
my favour to your son, I know I should succeed.
_Clar._ I am a carpenter.
_Grob._ Very right. But then you are the Deputy's father. Benninger, as
I am well informed, has secretly offered your son two thousand dollars
by way of present.
_Clar._ What?
_Grob._ They have agreed.
_Clar._ Infamous calumny!
_Grob._ I will give you two hundred dollars beside, if you--
_Clar._ Set off!--for, upon my word, I will do you some mischief.
_Grob._ Do you want more than two hundred?
_Clar._ Justice I want, Justice! My son shall send you to prison,
unless he be as great a good for nothing as yourself.
_Grob._ (laughs.) For what?
_Clar._ Sell! sell a monopoly! take money,--a bribe! My son, Jack
Clarenbach, the sovereign's deputy, take money!
_Grob._ (laughs.) Aye, sure, for the trouble that he--
_Clar._ I will bring an action against you.
_Grob._ Are you in your senses?
_Clar._ I will inform--
_Grob._ So you may.
_Clar._ All you have said.
_Grob._ Do so.
_Clar._ My son shall have ample satisfaction. Where is your conscience,
fellow? Defame a man in office and dignity? Now, go out by that door,
or I will lay both my hands on you.
_Grob._ The man must be tipsy. (Laughs, and exit.)
_Clar._ Aye, you may laugh, you cursed thief. All my limbs
tremble!--Some envious man, some fiend has sent him hither.--Jack would
not betray his native town.
SCENE VI.
Enter FREDERICA.
_Clar._ It is not possible.
_Fred._ Only think, dear father--
_Clar._ Curse the money!
_Fred._ Brother Jack is---
_Clar._ He has too much. Yes, yes, yes! I know, he has too much, and it
is impossible that he acquired it all in a fair way; but not so
neither. It may have been scraped together somewhat unfairly; but not
so neither, not so neither.
_Fred._ What ails you, pray? What do you talk about Jack and his money?
_Clar._ I cannot bear it, cannot bear his money.
_Fred._ Onl
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