Lothundiaz
To prevent my either being robbed or damned I am keeping my daughter
for a man who may not have genius, but who has common sense--
Fontanares
At least you will give me time--
Sarpi
Why give him time?
Quinola (to Monipodio)
Who can that be?
Monipodio
Sarpi.
Quinola
What a bird of prey he looks!
Monipodio
And he is as difficult to kill. He is the real governor of Barcelona.
Lothundiaz
My respects to you, honorable secretary! (To Fontanares) Farewell, my
friend, your arrival is an excellent reason why I should hurry on the
wedding. (To Marie) Come, my daughter, let us go in. (To the duenna)
And you, old hag, you'll have to pay for this.
Sarpi (to Lothundiaz)
This hidalgo seems to have pretensions--
Fontanares (to Sarpi)
Nay, I have a right!
(Exeunt Marie, the duenna and Lothundiaz.)
SCENE FOURTEENTH
Monipodio, Sarpi, Fontanares and Quinola.
Sarpi
A right? Do you know that the nephew of Fra Paolo Sarpi, kinsman of
the Brancadori, count in the Kingdom of Naples, secretary to the
viceroy of Catalonia, makes pretension to the hand of Marie
Lothundiaz? When another man claims a right in the matter he insults
both her and me.
Fontanares
Do you know that I for five years, I, Alfonso Fontanares, to whom the
king our master has promised the title of Duke of Neptunado and
Grandee, as well as the Golden Fleece, have loved Marie Lothundiaz,
and that your pretensions, made in spite of the oath which she has
sworn to me, will be considered, unless you renounce them, an insult
both by her and by me?
Sarpi
I did not know, my lord, that I had so great a personage for a rival.
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