Fontanares
She! Why she is a--
Faustine
Silence!
Lothundiaz
My daughter, this is your man of genius! Extreme in everything, but
leaning rather to madness than good sense. Senor Mechination, the
senora is the cousin and protector of Sarpi.
Fontanares
Well, take your daughter away from the house of the Marchioness of
Mondejar of Catalonia.
(Exeunt Lothundiaz and Marie.)
SCENE SEVENTEENTH
Faustine and Fontanares.
Fontanares
So, senora, your generosity was merely a trick to serve the interests
of Sarpi! We are quits then! And so farewell. (Exit.)
SCENE EIGHTEENTH
Faustine and Paquita.
Faustine
How handsome he looked in his rage, Paquita!
Paquita
Ah! senora, what will become of you if you love him in this way?
Faustine
My child, I feel that I have never loved before, and in an instant I
have been transformed as by a stroke of lightning. In one moment I
have loved for all lost time! Perhaps I have set my foot upon the path
which leads to an abyss. Send one of my servants to the house of
Mathieu Magis, the Lombard.
(Exit Paquita.)
SCENE NINETEENTH
Faustine (alone)
I already love him too much to trust my vengeance to the stiletto of
Monipodio, for he has treated me with such contempt that I must bring
him to believe that the greatest honor he could win would be to have
me for his wife! I wish to see him groveling at my feet, or I will
perish in the attempt to bring him there.
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