Delude not yourself with so false a hope. As long as your loveliness or my delusion lasts, I shall never cease to adore you. Well, then, rejoined she, since you are obstinate enough to persist in the resolution of wearying me with your importunities, my doors shall henceforth be shut against you. It may be supposed, perhaps, that after this, Don Valerio, baffled, made good his retreat like a prudent general. He became more troublesome than ever.
Love is to lovers just what wine is to drunkards.
I shall put a curb on your mad career. But, conjecturing that Inesilla had only started this device to rid herself of his solicitations, he answered, That is a mere romance of the moment to steal away from my ardent desires. No, no, said she, interrupting him, I disclose a mystery which should have been for ever buried, had you not reduced me to so painful a necessity. In short, I have interested myself for you as I should have done for my own son. After this confession, take your measures accordingly.