Listen; you are lending the use of
your name to Senor Avaloros.
Mathieu Magis
I know Senor Avaloros. He is a banker; we do some business together,
but his name in the city stands too high and his credit in the
Mediterranean is too sound for him to need the help of poor Mathieu
Magis--
Faustine
I see, Lombard, you are very cautious. If you wish to lend your name
to promote an important business undertaking--
Mathieu Magis
Is it smuggling?
Faustine
What difference does it make? The question is, what would guarantee
your absolute silence?
Mathieu Magis
High profit.
Faustine (aside)
This is a rare hunting dog. (Aloud) Very well, I am going to entrust
you with a secret of life and death, for I purpose giving up to you a
great man to devour.
Mathieu Magis
My small business feeds on the great passions of life; (aside) where
there is a fine woman, there is a fine profit.
Curtain to the Second Act.
ACT III
SCENE FIRST
(The stage setting is the interior of a stable. Overhead are piles of
hay; along the walls are wheels, tubes, shafts, a long copper chimney,
a huge boiler. To the left of the spectator the Madonna is sculptured
on a pillar. To the right is a table strewn with paper and
mathematical instruments. Above the table hangs on the wall a
blackboard covered with figures; by the side of the table is a shelf
on which are onions, a water crock and a loaf.
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