The Adventures Of Gil Blas Of Santillane
THE AUTHOR'S DECLARATION.
GIL BLAS TO THE READER.
INTRODUCTION by WM. MORTON FULLERTON.
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BOOK THE FIRST.
BOOK THE SECOND.
BOOK THE THIRD
BOOK THE FOURTH.
BOOK THE FIFTH.
BOOK THE SIXTH.
BOOK THE SEVENTH.
BOOK THE EIGHTH.
- CH. I. -- Gil Blas scrapes an acquaintance of some
value, and finds wherewithal to make him amends for the Count de
Galiano's ingratitude. Don Valerio de Luna's story.
- CH. II. -- Gil Blas is introduced to the Duke of
Lerma, who admits him among the number of his secretaries, and
requires a specimen of his talents, with which he is well satisfied.
- CH. III. -- All is not gold that glitters. Some
uneasiness resulting from the discovery of that principle in
philosophy, and its practical application to existing circumstances.
- CH. IV. -- Gil Blas becomes a favourite with the
Duke of Lerma, and the confidant of an important secret.
- CH. V. -- The joys, the honours, and the miseries
of a court life, in the person of Gil Blas.
- CH. VI. -- Gil Blas gives the Duke of Lerma a
hint of his wretched condition. That minister deals with him
accordingly.
- CH. VII. -- A good use made of the fifteen
hundred ducats. A first introduction to the trade of office, and an
account of the profit accruing therefrom.
- CH. VIII. -- History of Don Roger de Rada.
- CH. IX. -- Gil Blas makes a large fortune in a
short time, and behaves like other wealthy upstarts.
- CH. X. -- The morals of Gil Blas become at court
much as if they had never been at all. A commission from the Count de
Lemos, which, like most court commissions, implies an intrigue.
- CH. XI. -- The Prince of Spain's secret visit,
and presents to Catalina.
- CH. XII. -- Catalina's real condition a worry and
alarm to Gil Blas. His precautions for his own ease and quiet.
- CH. XIII. -- Gil Blas goes on personating the
great man. He hears news of his family: a touch of nature on the
occasion. A grand quarrel with Fabricio.
BOOK THE NINTH.
BOOK THE TENTH.
- CH. I. -- Gil Blas sets out for the Asturias; and
passes through Valladolid, where he goes to see his old master, Doctor
Sangrado. By accident, he comes across Signor Manuel Ordonnez,
governor of the hospital.
- CH. II. -- Gil Blas continues his journey, and
arrives in safety at Oviedo. The condition of his family. His father's
death, and its consequences.
- CH. III. -- Gil Blas sets out for Valencia, and
arrives at Lirias; description of his seat; the particulars of his
reception, and the characters of the inhabitants he found there.
- CH. IV. -- A journey to Valencia, and a visit to
the lords of Leyva. The conversation of the gentlemen, and Seraphina's
demeanour.
- CH. V. -- Gil Blas goes to the play, and sees a
new tragedy. The success of the piece. The public taste at Valencia.
- CH. VI. -- Gil Blas, walking about the streets of
Valencia, meets with a man of sanctity, whose pious face he has seen
somewhere else. What sort of man this man of sanctity turns out to be.
- CH. VII. -- Gil Blas returns to his seat at
Lirias. Scipio's agreeable intelligence, and a reform in the domestic
arrangements.
- CH. VIII. -- The loves of Gil Blas and the fair
Antonia.
- CH. IX. -- Nuptials of Gil Blas with the fair
Antonia; the style and manner of the ceremony; the persons assisting
thereat; and the festivities ensuing there upon.
- CH. X. -- The honey-moon (a very dull time for
the reader as a third person) enlivened by the commencement of
Scipio's story.
- CH. XI. -- Continuation of Scipio's story.
- CH. XII. -- Conclusion of Scipio's story.
BOOK THE ELEVENTH.
- CH. I. -- Containing the subject of the greatest
joy that Gil Blas ever felt, followed up, as our greatest pleasures
too generally are, by the most melancholy event of his life. Great
changes at court, producing, among other important revolutions, the
return of Santillane.
- CH. II. -- Gil Blas arrives in Madrid, and makes
his appearance at court: the king is blessed with a better memory than
most of his courtiers, and recommends him to the notice of his prime
minister. Consequences of that recommendation.
- CH. III. -- The project of retirement is
prevented, and Joseph Navarro brought upon the stage again, by an act
of signal service.
- CH. IV. -- Gil Blas ingratiates himself with the
Count of Olivarez.
- CH. V. -- The private conversation of Gil Blas
with Navarro, and his first employment in the service of the Count
d'Olivarez.
- CH. VI. The application of the three hundred
pistoles, and Scipio's commission connected with them. Success of the
state paper mentioned in the last chapter.
- CH. VII. -- Gil Blas meets with his friend
Fabricio once more; the accident, place, and circumstances described;
with the particulars of their conversation together.
- CH. VIII. -- Gil Blas gets forward progressively
in his master's affections. Scipio's return to Madrid, and account of
his journey.
- CH. IX.. -- How my lord duke married his only
daughter, and to whom: with the bitter consequences of that marriage.
- CH. X. -- Gil Blas meets with the poet Nunez by
accident, and learns that he has written a tragedy, which is on the
point of being brought out at the theatre royal. The ill fortune of
the piece, and the good fortune of its author.
- CH. XI. -- Santillane gives Scipio a situation:
the latter sets out for New Spain.
- CH. XII. -- Don Alphonso de Leyva comes to
Madrid; the motive of his journey a severe affliction to Gil Blas, and
a cause of rejoicing subsequent thereon.
- CH. XIII. -- Gil Blas meets Don Gaston de
Cogollos and Don Andrew de Tordesillas at the drawing-room, and
adjourns with them to a more convenient place. The story of Don Gaston
and Donna Helena de Galisteo concluded. Santillane renders some
service to Tordesillas.
- CH. XIV. -- Santillane's visit to the poet
Nunez, the company and conversation.
BOOK THE TWELFTH.
- CH. I. -- Gil Blas sent to Toledo by the
minister. The purpose of his journey and its success.
- CH. II. -- Santillane makes his report to the
minister, who commissions him to send for Lucretia. The first
appearance of that actress before the court.
- CH. III. -- Lucretia's popularity; her appearance
before the king; his passion, and its consequences.
- CH. IV. -- Santillane in a new office.
- CH. V. -- The son of the Genoese is acknowledged
by a legal instrument, and named Don Henry Philip de Guzman.
Santillane establishes his household, and arranges the course of his
studies.
- CH. VI. -- Scipio's return from New Spain. Gil
Blas places him about Don Henry's person. That young nobleman's course
of study. His career of honour, and his father's matrimonial
speculation on his behalf. A patent of nobility conferred on Gil Blas
against his will.
- CH. VII. -- An accidental meeting between Gil
Blas and Fabricio. Their last conversation together, and a word to the
wise from Nunez.
- CH. IX. -- The revolution of Portugal, and
disgrace of the prime minister.
- CH. X. -- A difficult, but successful, weaning
from the world. The minister's employments in his retreat.
- CH. XI. -- A change in his lordship for the
worse. The marvellous cause, and melancholy consequences, of his
dejection.
- CH. XII. -- The proceedings at the Castle of
Loeches after his lordship's death, and the course which Santillane
adopted.
- CH. XIII. -- The return of Gil Blas to his seat.
His joy at finding his god-daughter Seraphina marriageable; and his
own second venture in the lottery of love.
- CH. XIV. -- A double marriage, and the
conclusion of the history.
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