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SHOWING THAT PROSPERITY WILL SLIP THROUGH A MAN'S FINGERS. We slept at Duengnas the first night, and reached Valladolid on the following day, about four o'clock in the afternoon. We alight…
THE MEASURES GIL BLAS TOOK AFTER THE ADVENTURE OF THE READY-FURNISHED LODGING. After the first transports of my grief were over, I began to consider, that instead of giving way to remorse, I ought r…
FABRICIO INTRODUCES GIL BLAS TO THE LICENTIATE SEDILLO, AND PROCURES HIM A RECEPTION. THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY OF THAT CLERGYMAN. PICTURE OF HIS HOUSEKEEPER. We were so dreadfully afraid of offending ag…
THE CANON'S ILLNESS; HIS TREATMENT; THE CONSEQUENCE; THE LEGACY TO GIL BLAS. I staid three months with the Licentiate Sédillo, without complaining of bad nights. At the end of that time he fell…
GIL BLAS ENTERS INTO DOCTOR SANGRADO'S SERVICE, AND BECOMES A FAMOUS PRACTITIONER. I determined to throw myself in the way of Signor Arias de Londona, and to look out for a new birth in his reg…
GIL BLAS GOES ON PRACTISING PHYSIC WITH EQUAL SUCCESS AND ABILITY. ADVENTURE OF THE RECOVERED RING. I was no sooner at home than Doctor Sangrado came in. I talked to him about the patients I had see…
SEQUEL OF THE FOREGOING ADVENTURE. GIL BLAS RETIRES FROM PRACTICE, AND FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF VALLADOLID. After having thus carried Fabricio's plan into effect, we took our leave of Camilla&#…
HIS ROUTE FROM VALLADOLID, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF HIS FELLOW-TRAVELLER. I trudged on at a great rate, and looked behind from time to time, to see if that dreadful Biscayan was not following me. My im…
THE JOURNEYMAN BARBER'S STORY. I take up my tale from the origin of things. My grandfather, Ferdinand Perez de la Fuenta, barber-general to the village of Olmédo for fifty years, died, leaving …
THE MEETING OF GIL BLAS AND HIS COMPANION WITH A MAN SOAKING CRUSTS OF BREAD AT A SPRING, AND THE PARTICULARS OF THEIR CONVERSATION. Signor Diego de la Fuenta related some other adventures which had…
