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

THE ADVENTURES
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at their own homes : Don Oefar and his fon, feized
with the fame defire, flint themfelves up in their
apartments : and I, impatient to fee a city, the
beauty of which 1 had heard fo much extolled, went
out of the governor’s palace, with a defign to droll
through the ftreets. At the gate, I met a man, who
accofled me in thefe words : “ Signior de Santillane,
“ give me leave to falute you.” When I aiked who
he was, “ I am now, (faid he) Don Carfar’s valet de
“ chambre ; but was one of his lacqueys, while you
“ was his fteward : I made my court to you every
“ morning, becaufe you was very kind to me; and
“ I informed you of every thing that happened in
“ the boufe. Don’t you remember, that I one day
“ gave you notice, that the furgeon of the village of
“ Leyva was privately admitted into^the chamber of
“ Dame Loren^a Sephora “ I have not forgot it
“ (1 replied :) but a-propos, what is become of that
“ duenna ?” “ Alas ! (faid he) after your departure,
“ the poor creature pined-away, and died, more re-
V gretted by Seraphina than by Don Alphonfo, who
■“ feemed very little afflidted at her death.”
Don Caefar’s valet de ehambre having thus in¬
formed me of Sephora’s melancholy end, made an
•apology for having flopped me ; and I continued my
walk, fighing at the remembrance of that unfortu¬
nate duenna, and lamenting her fate, which 1 im¬
puted to myfelf; without confidering that it was
more owing to her own cancer than to ray cruelty.
1 obfcrvtd, with pleafure, all that was worth fee¬
ing in this city; the marble palace of the archbifliop-
agreeably entertained my view, as well as the fine
porticos of the exchange; but a large houfe, which
I difccrued at a diftance, and which. I faw a great