How ridiculous I was as a marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

I promise you," answered the marionette, sobbing, "that from now on I'll be good—"

As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a marionette.

Crying as if his heart would break, the Marionette mourned for hours over the length of his nose.

Everyone loves marionettes.

The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but— Unluckily, in a marionette's life there's always a "but" which is apt to spoil everything.

That Marionette is a disobedient son who is breaking his father's heart!

What was his surprise and his joy when, on looking himself over, he saw that he was no longer a marionette, but that he had become a real live boy!

The whole polyglot ghetto watched a marionette show in the square.

The marionette took off his clothes and laid them on the sand to dry.