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

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> (core of lacqueys. I am obliged to wait in thy
.anti-chamber, and fend in my name before I can
fpeak with thee: then, how am I received? with a
forced politenefs, and air of importance : fo that
my virus feem tedious and tirefome. Doft thou
think fuch areception can be agreeable to one who
Iras lived with thee on the footing a comrade ?
No, Santillane, no. I can’t put up with it.
Jarewel. Let us part friends, and get rid of one
another : thou of one who cenfures thy behaviour,
and I of a rich upftart who has forgot himfglf.”
I felt myfelf more irritated than reclaimed by his
reproaches, and let him go, without making the
leaft effort to detain him. In my opinion, at that
time, the friendlhip of a poet was not of fuch value,
as that I fhould be afflifled at the lofs of it: I
iaund abundance of consolation in the acquaintance
ef.fomefmall officers of the king, to whom of
late I was ftridlly conneffed by a fimilitude of dif-
yojitior. The greateft part of thefe new compa-
irions, were people who fprung I know not whence,
and arrived at their ports, merely by the happy
influence df their-ftars. They had already made
their fortunes ; and the wretches, afcribing to
their own merit the wealth which had been heaped
upon them by the bounty of the king, forgot
themfelves as well as I did.\ We looked upon our-
fclves as very refpefiful perfonages. O Fortune!
bow are thy favours ufually difpenfed ! The ftoic
EphSetus was certainly in the right, when he com¬
pared thee to a young lady of fafhion, who profti-
tutes herfelf to the embraces of footmen.
The End of the Eighth B005.