In this trade my
clothes are becoming as uncertain as an unknown quantity in algebra.
Fontanares
You are a fine fellow! Always merry, even in the depths of misfortune.
Quinola
And why not, gadzooks! Fortune loves the merry almost as much as the
merry love her.
SCENE FOURTH
The same persons and Mathieu Magis.
Quinola
Ah! Here comes our dear Lombard; he looks at all these pieces of
machinery as if they were already his lawful property.
Mathieu Magis
I am your most humble servant, my dear Senor Fontanares.
Quinola
This is he, polished, dry, cold as marble.
Fontanares
Good-day, Senor Magis. (Cuts himself a piece of bread.)
Mathieu Magis
You are a sublime hero, and as far as I am concerned, I wish you all
sorts of good luck.
Fontanares
And is this the reason why you try to bring upon me all sorts of bad
luck?
Mathieu Magis
You snap me up very sharply; you do wrong, you forget that in me there
are two men.
Fontanares
I have never seen the other.
Mathieu Magis
I have a heart, away from my business.
Fontanares
But you are never away from your business.
Mathieu Magis
I am always filled with admiration at the sight of your struggle.
Fontanares
Admiration is the passion which is the most easily exhausted.
Moreover, you never make any loans on sentiment.
Mathieu Magis
There are sentiments which bring profit, while others cause ruin. You
are animated by faith; that is very fine, but it is ruinous.
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