Quinola Water, senor? Why! It is the world. Without water, you could not—That is plain. Well now! This is the point on which my grandson's invention is based; water will subdue water. X equals O plus O, that is the complete formula.
Don Ramon (aside)
The terms he employs are incomprehensible.
Quinola
Do you understand me?
Don Ramon
Perfectly.
Quinola (aside) This man is a driveling dotard. (Aloud) I have spoken to you in the language of genuine philosophy—
Mathieu Magis (to Monipodio)
Can you tell me who this remarkably learned man is?
Monipodio He is a very great man, to whom I am indebted for my knowledge of ballistics; he is the director of the Venetian arsenal, and purposes this evening to make us a contribution on behalf of the republic.
Mathieu Magis
I must go and tell Senora Brancadori, she comes from Venice. (Exit.)
SCENE FOURTEENTH
The same persons, with the exception of Mathieu Magis. Lothundiaz and
Marie.