_Clar._ (lays hold of him.) Well, stop a moment! What is it? What, (looks round,) good heaven, what is all this! _Fred._ My brother!-- _Gern._ (shoving the box towards him.) Counsellor Selling! _Clar._ Where is my furniture? who had the impudence? who has permitted it? Girl, daughter, Frederica! where was you when all this was done? where is my furniture, my furniture? What are your intentions, people? (looking at the box.) What is that, what is it? _Gern._ Counsellor Selling's livery. _Fred._ An incomprehensible present for me. _Clar._ Pack up; lay hold; each of you a piece; carry it into the passage! Ere night all shall be packed up, and packed off too. (All take a piece of furniture, Gernau takes the band-box.) Stop, stop! each two pieces! take up--(whilst they are each taking two pieces, he discovers the easy chair, and shoves it into the middle of the room.) So thou art here yet, old friend! that is right! (lifts up both his arms.) You are the capital of my rank in life; (giving a knock against the chair,) and thou art the land-mark to point out how far I should extend the use of that capital. Away with the rest! away, I say! (They carry off the furniture.) ACT III. SCENE I. The Aulic Counsellor REISSMAN's House. Enter REISSMAN, with hat and cane. _Reiss._ Not here neither? (Rings the bell.) Where then can she be,--my young lady, my daughter? Enter SERVANT. _Reiss._ Where is my daughter? _Serv._ In the garden. _Reiss._ Run and tell her to come directly. _Serv._ (exit.) Now it is done, (walking up and down pleased.) Now it is right, and--(stops suddenly,) but that perverse old-fashioned fellow, with his pious lamentations--Pshaw! my intended son-in-law must manage him, and that quickly too, or he shall not have the girl. He is in love with her and the money,--a twofold inducement! He is in my hand, because his conscience is not altogether free,--a triple security! SCENE II. Enter SOPHIA. _Soph._ You have ordered-- _Reiss._ I congratulate you, my dear daughter, on your approaching nuptials with the Privy Counsellor. The suit is won; the bequest is confirmed; the money is mine; _Victoria_! _Soph._ (coldly.) So? _Reiss._ Yes, truly! Well, what does my dear child say? _Soph._ You have carried off the prize. _Reiss._ Yes! that is what I have just said. _Soph._ Then you have attained your wish. _Reiss._ Attained your wish! Is that a reply, when 10,000 pounds have fallen to my lot? Is that the behaviour of a daughter to her father on so happy an occasion. _Soph._ Dear father, will not you permit me to reflect a little on those that have lost that immense sum. _Reiss._ They are entire strangers to us both, no way related to us. _Soph._ The legacy was left by a stranger too.