very well. [Exit.]

BARON. I'll tell you in a few words why I sent for you. Count Cassel
is here, and wishes to marry my daughter.

ANHALT [much concerned]. Really!

BARON. He is--he--in a word I don't like him.

ANHALT [with emotion]. And Miss Wildenhaim ----

BARON. I shall not command, neither persuade her to the marriage--I
know too well the fatal influence of parents on such a subject.
Objections to be sure, if they could be removed--But when you find a
man's head without brains, and his bosom without a heart, these are
important articles to supply. Young as you are, Anhalt, I know no one
so able to restore, or to bestow those blessings on his
fellow-creatures, as you. [Anhalt bows.] The Count wants a little of my
daughter's simplicity and sensibility.--Take him under your care while
he is here, and make him something like yourself.--You have succeeded
to my wish in the education of my daughter.--Form the Count after your
own manner.--I shall then have what I have sighed for all my life--a
son.

ANHALT. With your permission, Baron, I will ask one question. What
remains to interest you in favour of a man, whose head and heart are
good for nothing?

BARON. Birth and fortune. Yet, if I thought my daughter absolutely
disliked him, or that she loved another, I would not thwart a first