Possible Clues:

• The Spanish and French end could be spritely?
• Charming, but to some extent self-indulgent
• Playfully delicate life abused and shortened
• Will the writer, losing capital, start to indulge new child?
• Like Keebler cookie makers
• What's so fine about fifty is it's so sprightly
• Like a tiny fairy
• Enchanting, but not in a big way?
• Like Puck
• The Spanish ending French being mischievous