"It is entirely my own doing; but I do not see that I am a donkey." "Blood of Bacchus!" I ejaculated, holding up my hands.

"He does not believe he is a great stupid!" But Nino was not angry at all.

He busied himself a little with his costume, which was laid out on the piano, with the sword and the tinsel collar and all the rest of it.
"I am in love," he said.

"What would you have ?" "I would have you put a little giudizio, just a grain of judgment and common sense, into your love affairs.

Why, you go about it as though it were the most innocent thing in the world to disguise yourself, and present yourself as a professor in a nobleman's house, in order to make love to his daughter! You, to make love to a noble damigella, a young countess, with a fortune! Go back to Serveti, and marry the first contadina girl you meet, it is much more fitting, if you must needs marry at all.