At that moment the children came up, and, without ceremony, we again parted company.
"Tell me, wonderful being, bewitching woman, what would you have done if, instead of your pretty serpent, you had seen your husband and your mother ?" "Nothing.

Do you not know that, in moments of such rapture, lovers see and feel nothing but love?
Do you doubt having possessed me wholly, entirely ?" Lucrezia, in speaking thus, was not composing a poetical ode; she was not feigning fictitious sentiments; her looks, the sound of her voice, were truth itself! "Are you certain," I enquired, "that we are not suspected ?" "My husband does not believe us to be in love with each other, or else he does not mind such trifling pleasures as youth is generally wont to indulge in.

My mother is a clever woman, and perhaps she suspects the truth, but she is aware that it is no longer any concern of hers.

As to my sister, she must know everything, for she cannot have forgotten the broken-down bed; but she is prudent, and besides, she has taken it into her head to pity me.

She has no conception of the nature of my feelings towards you.