"Many people have been good enough to tell me so before.

Thanks, kind friends, I believe you with all my heart.

Meanwhile, man, devil, fool, or reprobate, I am very old.

I am about to leave Rome for St.Petersburg, and I will take this last opportunity of informing you that in a very singularly long life I have met with only two or three such remarkable instances as this of yours." "Say what you wish to say, and go," said Nino, roughly.
"Certainly.

And whenever I have met with such an instance I have done my very utmost to reduce it to the common level, and to prove to myself that no such thing really exists.