[_Solus._] True; the honest lawyer lives by his reputation, and
therefore pauses to undertake a cause he knows unjust: but how easily
are some duped. Can my father for a moment suppose that the rank weeds
of youth are so easily uprooted? No! what is to be done, good father of
mine, but to serve myself? young men of the present generation cannot
live without the means of entering into life's varieties and this supply
will henceforth enable me to do so, to the fullest extent of my
ambitious wishes. [_Exit._

*Footnotes*

46 "_and_ HERMAN" in K. The scene, which is different, runs as follows:

HERMAN. Lecture me as much as you will, father, if at the close of
your sermon you are prepared to supply me with the money
that I need.
DERRIC. Money! that is eternally your cry. Your extravagances have
almost ruined and soon will dishonour me. Oh! I am but
justly punished for my mad indulgence of a son who was
born only to be my bane and curse.
HERMAN. If you could but invent some fresh terms for my reproach!
such frequent repetition becomes, I assure you, very
wearisome.
DERRIC. You have caused me to plunge into debt, and I am now pursued
by a host of creditors.
HERMAN. We must find a way to quiet them. And for the money I now
require--
DERRIC. Not another dollar do you obtain from me. Already, to supply
your cravings, I have misappropriated some of the public
money, and I must replace it soon if I would avert the
shame and degradation with which I now am threatened.
HERMAN. And from which I will save you.
DERRIC. You?
HERMAN. Yes. I! Rip van Winkle, your tenant--
DERRIC. What has that idle, dissipated fellow to do with the present
matter?
HERMAN. Much, as I will show you, and his daughter more.
DERRIC. His daughter?
HERMAN. Now scarcely seven years old, I believe. This girl has an
aunt residing in New York, who has long since, in
consequence of an affront received from Van Winkle,
discarded the whole family. But I have discovered that,
of which they have no notion.
DERRIC. What do you mean?