Are those reasons sufficient or not ?" "They may satisfy you," answered Gianbattista.

"They leave something to be desired in the way of logic, in my humble opinion." "Since I have told you that I do not care for your opinion--" "I will probably find means to make you care for it," retorted the young man.

"Don Paolo is quite right, in the first place, when he tells you that the thing is simply impossible.

Fathers do not compel their daughters to marry in this century.

Will you do me the favour to explain your first remark a little more clearly?
You said I had turned myself out--how ?" "You have changed, Tista," said Marzio, leaning back to sharpen his pencil, and staring at the wall.