If I feel that you are unhappy and in
distress, hope will forsake me in my retirement, and I shall die,
uttering a last prayer for you!
Quinola (to Marie)
Let him play the proud man, we may save him in spite of himself. Do
you know it is for this purpose that I am passing myself off as his
grandfather?
(Marie gives her purse to Quinola.)
Lothundiaz (to Don Ramon)
So you do not think much of him?
Don Ramon
Oh, no, he is an artisan, who knows nothing and who doubtless stole
his secret in Italy.
Lothundiaz
I have always doubted him, and it seems I was right in refusing him my
daughter in marriage.
Don Ramon
He would bring her to beggary. He has squandered five thousand
sequins, and has gone into debt three thousand in eight months,
without attaining any result! Ah! He is a contrast with his
grandfather. There's a philosopher of the first rank for you!
Fontanares will have to work hard to catch up with him. (He points to
Quinola.)
Lothundiaz
His grandfather?
Quinola
Yes, senor, my name of Fontanares was changed to that of Fontanaresi.
Lothundiaz
And you are Pablo Fontanaresi?
Quinola
Yes, Pablo himself.
Lothundiaz
And you are rich?
Quinola
Opulent.
Lothundiaz
That delights me, senor. I suppose that now you will pay me the two
thousand sequins which you borrowed from my father?
Quinola
Certainly, if you can show me my signature, I am ready to pay the
bond.
Marie (after a conversation with Fontanares)
You will accept this--will you not--as a means of securing your
triumph, for is not our happiness staked on that?
Fontanares
To think that I am dragging down this pearl into the gulf which is
yawning to receive me.
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