For he must be that guelphic Anguissola renegade who served the Pope and was high in favour with Farnese, and Captain of Justice in Piacenza.

In age he may have been some seven or eight years older than myself.
I stared at him now with interest, and I found attractions in him, the chief of which was his likeness to my father.

So must my father have looked when he was this fellow's age.

He returned my glance with a smile that did not improve his countenance, so contemptuously languid was it, so very supercilious.
"You may stare, cousin," said he, "for I think I do you the honour to be something like you." "You will find him," lisped the Cardinal to me, "the most self-complacent dog in Italy.

When he sees in you a likeness to himself he flatters himself grossly, which, as you know him better, you will discover to be his inveterate habit.