Lothundiaz
That cursed duenna has left my door open.
Monipodio (aside)
Alas, those poor children are ruined! (To Lothundiaz) Alms is a
treasure which is laid up in heaven.
Lothundiaz
Go to work, and you can lay up treasures here on earth. (He looks
round) I do not see my daughter and her duenna in their usual place.
Monipodio (to Lothundiaz)
The Spaniard is by nature generous.
Lothundiaz
Oh! get away! I am a Catalonian and suspicious by nature. (He catches
sight of his daughter and Fontanares.) What do I see? My daughter with
a young senor! (He runs up to them) It is hard enough to pay duennas
for guarding children with the heart and eyes of a mother without
finding them deceivers. (To his daughter) How is it that you, Marie,
heiress of ten thousand sequins a year, should speak to--do my eyes
deceive me? It is that blasted machinist who hasn't a maravedi.
(Monipodio makes signs to Quinola.)
Marie
Alfonso Fontanares is without fortune; he has seen the king.
Lothundiaz
So much the worst for the king.
Fontanares
Senor Lothundiaz, I am quite in a position to aspire to the hand of
your daughter.
Lothundiaz
Ah!
Fontanares
Will you accept for your son-in-law the Duke of Neptunado, grandee of
Spain, and favorite of the king?
(Lothundiaz pretends to look for the Duke of Neptunado.)
Marie
But it is he himself, dear father.
Lothundiaz
You, whom I have known since you were two foot high, whose father used
to sell cloth--do you take me for a fool?
SCENE TWELFTH
The same persons, Quinola and Dona Lopez.
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