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< rusty barrel, by way of exchange! What will Dame Van
Winkle say to this! By the hookey! but she'll comb my hair finely! Now,
I went to sleep beneath that hickory;--'twas a mere bush. Can I be
dreaming still? Is there any one who will be [good](140) enough to tell
me whether it is so or not? Be blowed if I can make head or tail
[o'nt.](141) One course only now remains,--to pluck up resolution, go
back to Dame Van Winkle, and by dunder! she'll soon let me know whether
I'm awake or not!(142)
[_Music.--Exit._
*Footnotes*
133 In K., the scene opens thus:
_The_ AERIAL SPIRITS _in Tableau._--_Dance of the_ SPIRITS _to the
gleams of the rising sun._--_Tableau._
SPIRIT OF THE MOUNTAIN. [_Speaks._]
Wake, sleeper, wake, rouse from thy slumbers.
The rosy cheeked dawn is beginning to break,
The dream-spell no longer thy spirit encumbers.
Gone is its power, then wake, sleeper, wake.
The Spirits of Night can no longer enchain thee,
The breeze of the morn now is striving to shake
Sweet dewdrops like gems from the copsewood and forest
tree.
All nature is smiling, then wake, sleeper, wake.
_Tableau.--They disappear as the clouds gradually pass away
and a full burst of bright sunshine illumines the scene._]
134 "Frau" in K.
135 In K., stage direction reads,"_Rises with difficulty._" All through
this speech in K., the dialect is pronounced.
136 "nein" in K.
137 Not in K.
138 In K., "donner unt blitzen."
139 Not in K.
140 "goot" in K.
141 In K., "of him."
142 In K., speech ends, [_Moves painfully._] "My legs do seem as if they
vould not come after me."
SCENE II.(143)
_A well-furnished apartment in the house of_ KNICKERBOCKER.
LORRENNA, _now a woman, enters._
LORRENNA.
Alas, what a fate is mine! Left an orphan at an early age,--a relation's
bounty made me rich, but, to-day, this fatal day--poverty again awaits me
unless I bestow my hand without my heart! Oh, my poor father! little did
you know the misery you have entailed upon your child.
KNICKERBOCKER _and_ ALICE _enter, arm in arm. They are much more corpulent
than when seen in Act I and dressed in mod]]>
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