Give me your daughter and help me
hang O'MALLEY, or I will ruin you."
O'HARA.--"I am in your power. Do as you please." _[Enter Tragic
Heroine.]_
TRAGIC HEROINE.--"Never. ULICK shall neither marry me nor hang
O'MALLEY."
ULICK.--"Young woman, I will lock you in this room for a year or two,
until O'MALLEY is thoroughly hung. Come, O'HARA." _[Exeunt.]_
TRAGIC HEROINE.--"I must escape and warn O'MALLEY. But how? I have it. I
can leap out of the window into the sea: I can then swim in full
ball-dress to O'MALLEY'S castle, which is only twenty leagues from here.
I will warn him, and fly with him. Courage. I will remove my back-hair
and make the hazardous leap." _[She leaps.]_
SCENE III.--_The vaults below O'Malley's castle. Enter Dutch General,
O'Hara, Ulick, and the "Doctor," a rebel prisoner._
DOCTOR.--"I brought you here to show you O'MALLEY'S hiding-place. Now
I've got you. The tide rose the moment we entered, and cut off your
retreat; we'll all be drowned like rats in a hole. Hurroo." _[O'Malley
descends into the vaults by an iron door.]_
O'MALLEY.--"Come up-stairs out of the wet. We'll have some whiskey."
_[They come up.]_
ACT II.
SCENE I.--_O'Malley's ancestral back-garret. Enter Tragic Heroine in
ball-dress, having swum across the bay._
TRAGIC HEROINE.--"Ha! also Ho! I am a little out of breath.
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