"Tell me, my handsome Spaniard, why do you wear a false nose and moustaches? Are you flat-nosed, that you disguise yourself so?"
"No, I can assure you that I am not flat-nosed."
"Then does your real nose make you so very ugly?"
"I have never been told that I was ill-looking."
"People may have thought so!"
"It is not probable!"
"What a conceited creature!—Well, take off your nose, if you want us to believe you."
"Ah! my pretty domino, you ask me to do something of great importance to me. I have many reasons for not wanting to be recognized!"
"Bosh! you say that to put on airs. Maybe you're some great personage? Are you a State official?"
"No, not exactly; but I have a very good position in society, and I have to be careful."[F]