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HISTORY OF DON ROGER DE RADA. Don Anastasio de Rada, a gentleman of Grenada, was living happily in the town of Antequera, with Donna Estephania his wife, who united every charm of person and mind wi…
GIL BLAS MAKES A LARGE FORTUNE IN A SHORT TIME, AND BEHAVES LIKE OTHER WEALTHY UPSTARTS. This affair gave me a relish for my trade; and ten pistoles to Scipio, by way of brokerage, whetted his eager…
THE MORALS OF GIL BLAS BECOME AT COURT MUCH AS IF THEY HAD NEVER BEEN AT ALL. A COMMISSION FROM THE COUNT DE LEMOS, WHICH, LIKE MOST COUNT COMMISSIONS, IMPLIES AN INTRIGUE. When once my name was up …
THE PRINCE OF SPAIN'S SECRET VISIT, AND PRESENTS TO CATALINA. I went to the Count de Lemos on the spur of the occasion, with five hundred double pistoles in my hand. You could not have come at …
CATALINA'S REAL CONDITION A WORRY AND ALARM TO GIL BLAS. HIS PRECAUTIONS FOR HIS OWN EASE AND QUIET. On coming home, I heard a devil of a noise, and inquired what was the meaning of it. They to…
GIL BLAS GOES ON PERSONATING THE GREAT MAN. HE HEARS NEWS OF HIS FAMILY: A TOUCH OF NATURE ON THE OCCASION. A GRAND QUARREL WITH FABRICIO. I mentioned, some time ago, that in the morning there was u…
SCIPIO'S SCHEME OF MARRIAGE FOR GIL BLAS. THE MATCH, A RICH GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER. CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH THIS SPECULATION. One evening, on the departure of my supper company, finding…
IN THE PROGRESS OF POLITICAL VACANCIES, GIL BLAS RECOLLECTS THAT THERE IS SUCH A MAN IN THE WORLD AS DON ALPHONSO DE LEYVA, AND RENDERS HIM A SERVICE FROM MOTIVES OF VANITY. Let us leave my marriage…
PREPARATIONS FOR THE MARRIAGE OF GIL BLAS. A SPOKE IN THE WHEEL OF HYMEN. And now once more for my lovely Gabriela! We were to be married in a week. Preparations were making on both sides for the ce…
THE TREATMENT OF GIL BLAS IN THE TOWER OF SEGOVIA. THE CAUSE OF HIS IMPRISONMENT. Their first favor was to clap me up in a cell, where they left me on the straw like a criminal, whose only earthly p…
