Languages & literature > Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane > Volume 3

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. ’ Sijnior de Nifana:came to fop at my houfe every
■eyaning withi fome1 of his friends ; and I, on my
fidt, -topic care to invlte the moft engaging of our
. actrelies ! ■ fo that we commonly fpent the beft part
(of the night in drinking and making merry. I ac¬
commodated rmyfeif mighty well to, fuch an agree¬
able life, which, iiawever, lafted but! fix months.
Noblemen, ate apt to change, Stherwiffe theywould
.be too amiable. Don Ambrofio forfook me, -for a
jconqueft. he had made1 of a young creature from
Grenada, who had arrived at Seville with fome
charms, and. the talent of difpofmg .'them to the
•beft advantage. My. afftiftion at his inconftancy
;did nptlaft, however, longer than four and twenty
.hours. I chofe in his room a cavalier of two arid
twenty, called Don Lewis d’Akacer, io whom, in
point of perfon, few Spaniards could be compared:
Thou wilt, doubtlefs,..a<k, and thou haft reafon
fo to do, why I took fuch a young nobleman for
my gallant, when I knew the confequences of fuch
a choice. Bjut, befides that Don Lewis had~ nei¬
ther father nor mother, and already enjoyed’ his
eftate, I muft tell thee, that-thefe confequences are
not to be dreaded but by girls of a fervile condition,
or unhappy ftie-adventurers. Women of our proi
feflion are privileged perfons, and not at all anfwera-
ble for the effedls that our diarms produce. So much
the worfe for thofe, families whofe heirs we pillage.
Alcacey and I attached ourfelves fo ftrongly to
one another, that no mutual paffioo, I believe,
(ever equalled that with'which we were inflamed.
We loved with fo much fury, that one would have
thought we were both enchanted : and thofe who
were acquainted with our correfpondence, be¬
lieved us the moft happy lovers in the world;
though we were in reality the moft miferable-.
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