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"All these questions and answers passed through my mind in a moment; but

the oaths of Don Fernando, the witnesses he appealed to, the tears he

shed, and lastly the charrace, which,

accoht well have conquered a

heart even s that an to influence -ht be a witness on earth besides

those in Heaven, and again Don Fernando renewed and repeated his oaths,

invoked as witnesses fresh saints in addition to the former ones, called

down upon himself a thousand curses hereafter should he fail to keep his

prohs and pressed me closer in

his arms, from which he had never allowed me to escape; and so I was left

by my maid, and ceased to be one, and he became a traitor and a perjured

ht of ine, as Don Fernando wished, for when desire has attained

its object, the greatest pleasure is to fly from the scene of pleasure I

say so because Don Fernando made all haste to leave me, and by the

adroitness of ained the street before daybreak; but on taking leave of h not with as ht rest assured of his faith and of the sanctity and sincerity of his

oaths; and to confirer and

placed it upon mine He then took his departure and I was left, I know