Languages & literature > Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane > Volume 1

i-e the money he had received for it, if he
uld own that he knew me; and therefore
rmed, with adonilhing aiTurunce, that far from >
iwing me, he had never feen me before! “Ah,
ttor,-(cried I) rather confefsthat thou haft fold
w goods; and bear witnefs to the truth: look
iff me again. I am one of the young people
tom you threatened with the torture, at the
ough of Cacabelos, and frightened very much.”
e carrier anfwered coldly, that 1 talked of an
flair of which he was utterly ignorant; and as
^ maintained to the laft, that 1 was unknown to
my enlargement was deferred till another
ne; fo that i was obliged to, arm myfelf with
tience a-new, and refolve to regale myfelf ftill
,th my bread-, and water, and a light of the filent
•nkey.—The thoughts of being unable to free
'felt from the claws of juftice, although I was
t guilty, of the lead crime, threw me into def-
tr 1 I wifhed myfelf again in the cavern,
re in the main (faid i to myfelf) I was lefs
■eeably iituated than in this dungeon ;
fere I eat and drank in plenty, converfed witix
ie robbers, and lived in the fweet hope of ma-
bg my efcape; inftead of which, notwithftand-
P my innocence, I lhall perhaps think myfelf
ppily quit, to get out of this place, in order to
r fent to the galleys.”
C H A P. X1IT.
what accident Gil Bias was fet at liberty at
lajl; id whether he directed his. courje.
J^HILE I pailed my days in entertaining my-
i fell with thefe reliections, my adventures,
ch as they appeared in my depofition, fpread
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