appeased, while she, on the other side, dissembled all the ease, and repose of mind, that could flatter him to calmness. You must know, that for _Sylvia_’., honour, she had lodgings by herself, and _Octavio_ had his in another house, at an aunt’s of his, a widow, and a woman of great quality; and _Sylvia_ being near her lying-in, had provided all things, with the greatest magnificence imaginable, and passed for a young widow, whose husband died, at the Siege of----_Octavio_ only visited her daily, and all the nights she had to herself. For he treated her as one whom he designed to make his wife, and one whose honour was his own; but that night the news of _Philander_’., arrival was told her, she was more than ordinary impatient to have him gone, pretending illness, and yet seemed loath to let him go, and lovers (the greatest cullies in nature, and the aptest to be deceived, though the most quick-sighted)--do the soonest believe; and finding it the more necessary he should depart, the more ill she feigned to be, he took his leave, and left her to repose, after taking all care necessary, for one in her circumstances. But she, to make his absence more sure, and fearing lest he should suspect something of her design, being herself guilty, she orders him to be called back, and caresses him anew, tells him she was never more unwilling to part with him, and all the while is complaining and wishing to be in bed; and says he must not stir till he sees her laid. This obliges and cajoles him anew, and he will not suffer her women to undress her, but does the grateful business himself, and reaps some dear recompense by every service, and pleases his eyes and lips, with the ravishing beauties, of the loose unguarded, suffering fair one. She permits him any thing to have him gone, which was not till he saw her laid, as if to her rest: but he was no sooner got into his coach, but she rose, and slipped on her night-gown, and some other loose thingss and got into a chair, commanding her page to conduct the chairmen to all the great _cabarets_, where she believed it most likely to find _Philander_; which was accordingly done; and the page entering, inquires for such a _cavalier_, describing his person, his fine remarkable black hair of his own: but the first he entered into, he saw _Brilliard_ bespeaking supper: for you must know that, that husband-lover being left, as I have said, in prison in _Holland_, for the accusation of _Octavio_; the unhappy young nobleman was no sooner fled upon the unlucky death of his uncle, but the _States_ set _Brilliard_ at liberty; who took his journey immediately to _Philander_, whom he found just released from his troublesome affair, and designed for _Brussels_, where they arrived that very morning: where the first thing he did, was to go to the nunnery of St _Austin_, to inquire for the fair _Calista_; but instead of encountering the kind, the impatient, the brave _Calista_, he was addressed to, by the