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praises his letters （for however ugly we won ay be, itsees to it always pleases to hear ourselves called beautiful）but that y own sense of right was opposed to all this, as well as therepeated advice of y parents, who now very pnly perceived donfernando&039;s purpose, for he cared very little if all the world knew itthey told they trted and nfided their honour and good na toy virtue and rectitude alone, and bade nsider the disparitybeeen don fernando and yself, fro which i ight ncde thathis tentions, whatever he ight say to the ntrary, had for theirai his own pleasure rather than y advanta; and if i were at alldesiro of opposg an obstacle to his unreanable suit, they wereready, they said, to arry at once to anyone i preferred, eitheraong the leadg people of our own town, or of any of those theneighbourhood; for with their wealth and y good na, a atch ightbe looked for any arter this offer, and their und advicestrengthened y retion, and i never gave don fernando a word reply that uld hold out to hi any hope of suess, however reote

&ot;all this caution of e, which he t have taken for yness, hadapparently the effect of creasg his wanton appetite- for that isthe na i give to his passion for ; had it been what he declared itto be, you would not know of it now, becae there would have beenno oasion to tell you of it at length he learned that y parentswere nteplatg arria for order to put an end to his hopef obtag possession of , or at least to secure additionalprote