"You were paying me back in my own coin! Well, well! It served me right, after all.

You have a ready wit." "I thought that if my conversation were not as instructive as you had hoped, I could at least try to make it amusing--light, gay, witty! I trust you will not take it ill." "Not I!" Giovanni tried to laugh.

"But what a wonderful thing is this human imagination of ours! Now, as I talked of the secrets, I forgot that they were my father's, they seemed almost within my grasp, I was ready to count out the gold, to count out six thousand gold lires.

Think of that!" "They are worth it," said Zorzi quietly.
"You should know best," answered the other.

"There is no such glass as my father's for lightness and strength.