Well; you are older.

It may seem to you that I shall think as you do when I have had a similar, or the same, length of experience.' This provoking reply caused her father to jump up from his chair and spin round for his hat.

She rose to speed him forth.
'It may seem to me!' he kept muttering.

'It may seem to me that when a daughter gets married--addio! she is nothing but her husband.' 'Ay! ay! if it might be so!' the signora wailed out.
The count hated tears, considering them a clog to all useful machinery.
He was departing, when through the open window a noise of scuffling in the street below arrested him.
'Has it commenced ?' he said, starting.
'What ?' asked the signora, coolly; and made him pause.
'But-but-but!' he answered, and had the grace to spare her ears.

The thought in him was: 'But that I had some faith in my wife, and don't admire the devil sufficiently, I would accuse him point-blank, for, by Bacchus! you are as clever as he.' It is a point in the education of parents that they should learn to apprehend humbly the compliment of being outwitted by their own offspring.
Count Serabiglione leaned out of the window and saw that his horses were safe and the coachman handy.