It would show a detestable lack of appreciation of my own gifts." "I do not think Don Giovanni so very like you," said Donna Tullia, thoughtfully.
"Perhaps you do not know him so well as I do," remarked the Prince.
"Where do you see the greatest difference ?" "I think you talk better, and I think you are more--not exactly more honest, perhaps, but more straightforward." "I do not agree with you," said old Saracinesca, quickly.

"There is no one alive who can say they ever knew Giovanni approach in the most innocent way to a distortion of truth.

I daresay you have discovered, however, that he is reticent; he can hold his tongue; he is no chatterer, no parrot, my son." "Indeed he is not," answered Donna Tullia, and the reply pacified the old man; but she herself was thinking what supreme reticence Giovanni had shown in the matter of his marriage, and she wondered whether the Prince had ever heard of it..