"I will make the world acknowledge you a beauty, too," he went on, while I really became uneasy at the strain he had adopted, because I felt he was either deluding himself or trying to delude me.
— Voglio che il mondo riconosca la vostra bellezza, — aggiunse; e vi fu un momento che mi sentii a disagio udendolo parlare così, perché capivo che voleva illudere me, o illudere sé stesso.