How is that, father?

Quinola
How is that, sir?

Lothundiaz
Why! This is that brigand of a Lavradi!

Quinola
My master has won from the king an acknowledgment of my innocence.

Lothundiaz
To obtain for me a patent of nobility cannot then be a difficult
matter.

Quinola
And do you really think that a townsman can be changed into a nobleman
by letters-patent of the king! Let us make the experiment. Imagine for
a moment that I am the Marquis of Lavradi. My dear duke, lend me a
hundred ducats?

Lothundiaz
A hundred cuts of the rod! A hundred ducats! It is the rent of a piece
of property worth two thousand gold doubloons.

Quinola
There! I told you so--and that fellow wishes to be ennobled! Let us
try again. Count Lothundiaz, will you advance two thousand doubloons
in gold to your son-in-law that he may fulfill his promises to the
King of Spain?