ARGANTE, SCAPIN.
SCA
Well, Sir, you see how many people are k**ed for two hundred pistoles. Now I wish you a good morning.
ARG
(all trembling). Scapin.
SCA
What do you say?
ARG
I will give the two hundred pistoles.
SCA
I am very glad of it, for your sake.
ARG
Let us go to him; I have them with me.
SCA
Better give them to me. You must not, for your honour, appear in this business, now that you have pa**ed for another; and, besides, I should be afraid that he would ask you for more, if he knew who you are.
ARG
True; still I should be glad to see to whom I give my money.
SCA
Do you mistrust me then?
ARG
Oh no; but....
SCA
Zounds! Sir; either I am a thief or an honest man; one or the other. Do you think I would deceive you, and that in all this I have any other interest at heart than yours and that of my master, whom you want to take into your family? If I have not all your confidence, I will have no more to do with all this, and you can look out for somebody else to get you out of the mess.
ARG
Here then.
SCA
No, Sir; do not trust your money to me. I would rather you trusted another with your message.
ARG
Ah me! here, take it.
SCA
No, no, I tell you; do not trust me. Who knows if I do not want to steal your money from you?
ARG
Take it, I tell you, and don't force me to ask you again. However, mind you have an acknowledgment from him.
SCA
Trust me; he hasn't to do with an idiot.
ARG
I will go home and wait for you.
SCA
I shall be sure to go. (Alone.) That one's all right; now for the other. Ah! here he is. They are sent one after the other to fall into my net.