(Aloud) And you refuse to tell
us what it is?
Fontanares
I will tell the king, in presence of the court; for, after that, no
one will be able to rob me of my glory and the fortune that it brings.
The Grand Inquisitor
You call yourself an inventor, and yet you think of nothing but
fortune! You are too ambitious to be a man of genius.
Fontanares
Father, I am so profoundly disgusted by the jealousy of the vulgar, by
the avarice of the great, by the behavior of sham philosophers, that--
but for my love for Marie--I would give back that which chance has
bestowed upon me.
The Grand Inquisitor
Chance?
Fontanares
I am wrong. I would give back to God the thought which God has sent to
me.
The Grand Inquisitor
God did not send it to you that it might be hidden, and we have the
right to force you to divulge it. (To his familiar) Bid them prepare
the rack.
Fontanares
I was expecting it.
SCENE ELEVENTH
The Grand Inquisitor, Fontanares, Quinola and the Duke of Olmedo.
Quinola
It isn't a very healthy thing, this torture.
Fontanares
Quinola! And in what a livery!
Quinola
The livery of success, for you are to be freed.
Fontanares
Free? And to pass from hell to heaven in an instant?
The Duke of Olmedo
As martyrs do.
The Grand Inquisitor
Sir, do you dare to say such words in this place!
The Duke of Olmedo
I am charged by the king to take out of your custody this man, and
will answer for him to the Holy Inquisition.
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