To-night, for instance, though I have been in Rome only a week, I have been to a dinner party, to the theatre, to a reception, and to a ball.

Everybody invites me as soon as I arrive.

I am very popular,--and yet I am a Jew," he added, laughing in an odd way.
"But you are a merry Jew," said Nino, laughing too, "besides being a great genius.

I do not wonder people invite you." "It is better to be merry than sad," replied Benoni.

"In the course of a long life I have found out that." "You do not look so very old," said Nino.