"I am not sure that he is not more intelligent than you--in some ways," she added, after allowing her rebuke to take effect.
Del Ferice smiled blandly.

It was not his business to show that he was hurt.
"In one thing he is stupid compared with me," he replied.

"He is very far from doing justice to your charms.

It must be a singular lack of intelligence which prevents him from seeing that you are as beautiful as you are charming.

Is it not so, Gouache ?" "Does any one deny it ?" asked the Frenchman, with an air of devotion.
Madame Mayer blushed with annoyance; both because she coveted Giovanni's admiration more than that of other men, and knew that she had not won it, and because she hated to feel that Del Ferice was able to wound her so easily.