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"And they had hardly discovered me, when, as he owned afterwards, he was

smitten with a violent love for me, as the manner in which it displayed

itself plainly showed But to shorten the long recital of my woes, I will

pass over in silence all the artifices e his passion for ifts and presents toin our street; by night no one could sleep for the music;

the love letters that used to come to my hand, no one kneere

innu more

promises and oaths than there were letters in them; all which not only

did not soften ainst hi he did to make me yield were done

with the opposite intention Not that the high-bred bearing of Don

Fernando was disagreeable to ave ht and prized by a gentle ly omen

may be, it seems to me it always pleases us to hear ourselves called

beautiful) but that ht was opposed to all this, as

well as the repeated advice of my parents, who now very plainly perceived

Don Fernando's purpose, for he cared very little if all the world knew

it They told ood name to

my virtue and rectitude alone, and bade me consider the disparity between

Don Fernando and ht conclude that his intentions,

whatever he ht say to the contrary, had for their aie; and if I were at all desirous of opposing an

obstacle to his unreasonable suit, they were ready, they said, tothe leading people of our