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

;iaufe he believes he has no reafon to be jea-
.L will become furious, revenge himfelf upon
^ and, in all probability, make both you and
. ’feel the effecls of his rage.” “ Why, truly,
( d I) Signor Marcos, your reafons are convin-
: g, and I fubmit myfelf wholly to your advice:
e me, therefore, direcdions how to behave, in
• : ier to prevent mifchief.’’ “ We have nothing
d do, (anfwered he) but to give over our con-
rt: appear no more before my miitrefs; and
jiien you are no longer feen, die will retrieve
- ,;o r quiet. Stay at your mailer’s houle, whither
;i vsll come, and we will play upon the guitarre
d thout danger. ’ “ With all my heart, (laid
•vi and I promife never to fet foot within your
anor again.” I refolved, in good earnell, to be
•,J good as my word; and, for the future, to
1) tep myfclf clofe in the Ihop, iince the light of
• .1(6 was fo dangerous.
i. In the mean time, honed Marcos, with all his
• jrudence, found, in a very few days, that the
jeans he had contrived to extinguiih the flame
i ; i Donna Mergelliua, produced a quite contrary
> Yedt. This lady, not having heard me ling for
■«*vo nights fucceffively, alked him why we had
& tfcontinned our concert, and for what reafon I
ip longer appeared? He replied, I was fo bufy
ripat I had not a moment to bellow on my piea-
!pres. She feerned fatislied with this excul'e, and
ij or three days more fupported my abfence with
> brtitude enough; but at the end of that time
uy princefs loit all patience, and faid to her
quire, “ You deceive me, Marcos; Diego mud
»3'ave fome other reafon for not coming hither:
fhere is fome myllery in it, which I mull have
i pplained : fpeak therefore, I order you, and
Conceal nothing of the truth.” “ Madam, (an-
O 3 fwered