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THE ADVENTURES
pio, who, without lofs of time, took all neceflary
meafures for a fuperb funeral.
He fucceeded but too well; and performed fu'ch
magnificent obfequies, that he brought the whole city
and fuburbs on my back; all the inhabitants of
Oviedo, from the higheft to the lowed, being fhocked
at my odentation. “ This minider (faid one) is in
“ a great hurry to lay out money oa his father’s in-
“ ferment; but he was in none to maintain him.'*
“ He would have done better, (faid another) had he
fuccoured his father while he was alive, than to
“ honour him fo much, now that he is dead.’' In.,
fhort, reproaches were not fpared ; every one had a
fling at me: but they did not dop here; they in-
fulted Scipio, Bertrand, and me, as we came out of
the church, loaded us with revilings, and hooted us
as we walked along, and conduced Bertrand to the,
inn with a fliower of dones.
To difperfe the mob that was gathered before my
uncle’s houfe, there was a necedity for my mother’s
fliewing herfelf, and declaring, that die was perfedlljt
well fatiffied with my conducd. Some ran to the
public-houfe, in order todemolidi mychaife; and
this they certainly would have done, if the landlord
and his wife had not found means to appeafe their.
fury, and dilTuade them from their defign.
All thefc affronts, which were the efleids of the
young grocer’s report of me through the city, infpi-
red me with fuch averfion for my townfmen, that I
determined fpeedily to leave Oviedo, where, other*
wife, I diould perhaps have daid a good while. This
I plainly told my mother, who being very much mor¬
tified at the reception with which the people had re¬
galed me, did not oppofe my departure. What r&