Languages & literature > Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane > Volume 4

OF GIL BLAS.
jM'to pleafe me. Accordingly I have promoted him .
as he deferved, and he now a<5tually enjoy* two
P‘- employments at the hofpital, the leaft of which is
more than fufficient to maintain an honeft man,
Ip encumbered with a large family.”
CHAP. N.
iJ'Gil Bias continues his journey, and arrives fafeJyat Ovie*
B do. The condition in -which be found his parents. The
l| death of his father, and the confequenres thereof.
‘ ROM Valladolid, we got in four days to Ovie-
•■-I- do, without meeting with any bad accident on
rthe road, notwithftanding the proverb, which fays,
rthat robbers fmell the money of travellers afar off!
We flrould have been, however, a pretty good booty; ■
and two inhabitants of the cavern would have been
futficient to carry off our doubloons with eafe ; for
I had not learned to grow valiant at court; and
Bertrand, my Moqo de Malas', did not leem of a hu-
I;! mour to die in defence of his mailer’s purfe : Scipio
was the only Hedlor among us.
It being night when we arrived in town, we went
to lodge at an inn hard by the houfe of my uncld
the Canon Gil Perez. I was willing to underhand
the fuuation of my parents, before 1 fhould appear
as their Ion; and for this piece of information, I
'could not apply to a more proper perfon than my
landlord or his wife, who I knew to be people who
were very well acquainted with the affairs of their,'
neighbours. In effedl, the landlord, after having .
eyed me with retention, recolledliog my face, cried.
A mule-driver.