*°4 The ADVENTURES of
CHAP. IV.
7 he archbljhop is fehed with a Jit of the apoplexy. The dilemma in which. Gil Bias found him/elf\ and the method he took to be extricated.
X 7-HILK I thus beftowcd my ferviccs on difFer- ▼ V cnt people, Don Fernand being about to leave Grenada, I vifited that nobleman before hisxle- parture, in order to thank him anew, for the excellent poll which he had procured for me. I appeared to him fo well fatisfied with my condition, that belaid, “ My dear Gil Was, I am ravifhed to find thee fo well plcafed with my uncle the archbifhop.” “ I iim charmed with him, (I replied) and (hall never be iibJe to fhew myfclf grateful enough for his gencrofity jo me. Nothing lefs could have confoled me for the Jtifs of Don Ciefar and his fon.” “ I am perfuaded (anfwcred he) that they are both extremely mortified irt your abfence; but, perhaps, you arc not fepara- *cd for ever : fortune may one day bring youtogetllcr irgain.” Melted by thefe words, I fighed, and found »'t that inftant my love for Don Alphonfo fo great, that I would willingly have abandoned the archbijhop, with all the agreeable hopes he had given me, to return to the cattle of Leyva, if the obtiacle that 1 auifhed me from it had been removed. Don Fer-. i'fi p.d perceived the emotions of my foul, which plea- b? i him (o much, that he embraced me with affe&ion, a flu red me that his whole family would always K :u a part in my dettiny.
i wo months after this gentleman’s departure, in ihe very zenith of my favour, we had a hot alarm in the epffcopal palace .* the archbifhop was feized with > iht of .the apoplexy.; he was, however, fuccouied •fcmnediately, and fuch falutary medicines admini- f ied, tnat in a few days his health was re-efta- l.iilhcd ; but his wudcrflanding had received a rude ;ji, wbicji I plainly perceived in the very next tikwuffc width he 1 did not ; however,
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