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After this she could not contain any secret from him , but told him she had something to say to him , which if he knew , would convince him she had all the passion in the world for him : he presses eagerly to know , and she pursues to tell him , it is as much as her life is worth to discover it , and that she lies under the obligation of an oath not to tell it ; but kisses and rhetoric prevail , and she cries -- ' What will you say now , if my lady may marry one of the greatest and most considerable persons in all this country ? ' ` I should not wonder at her conquest , ' -LRB- replied _ Brilliard _ -RRB- ` but I should wonder if she should marry . ' ` Then cease your wonder , ' replied she , ' . or she is to-morrow to be married to Count _ Octavio _ , whom she is to meet at nine in the morning to that end , at a little village a league from this place . ' She spoke , and he believes ; and finds it true by the raging of his blood , which he could not conceal from _ Antonet _ , and for which he feigns a thousand excuses to the amorous maid , and charges his concern on that for his lord : at last -LRB- after some more discourse on that subject -RRB- he pretends to grow sleepy , and hastens her to her chamber ; and locking the door after her , he began to reflect on what she had said , and grew to all the torment of rage and jealousy , and all the despairs of a passionate lover : and though this hope was not extreme before , yet as lovers do , he found , or fancied a probability -LRB- from his lord 's inconstancy , and his own right of marriage -RRB- that the necessity she might chance to be in of his friendship and assistance in a strange country , might some happy moment or other render him the blessing he so long had waited for from _ Sylvia _ ; for he ever designed , when either his lord left her , grew cold , or should happen to die , to put in his claim of husband . And the soft familiar way , with which she eternally lived with him , encouraged this hope and design ; nay , she had often made him advances to that happy expectation . But this fatal blow had driven him from all his fancied joys , to the most wretched estate of a desperate lover .