unresolves

Updated: May 11, 2025

A thousand times he was about to go, and try what opportunity would do, in the dark silent night but fears her rage he fears she will chide at least; then he resolves, and unresolves as fast: unhappy lover thus to blow the fire when there was no materials to supply it; at last, overcome with fierce desire too violent to be withstood, or rather fate would have it so ordained, he ventures all, and steals to Sylvia's chamber, believing, when she found him in her arms, she could not be displeased; or if she were, that was the surest place of reconciliation: so that only putting his night-gown about him, he went softly to her chamber for fear of waking her: the unthinking lovers had left open the door, so that it was hardly put to; and the first alarm was Octavio's hand being seized, which was clasping his treasure.

Aphra Behn - Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister