DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6095#0140
122 A TOUR THROUGH
soxne time what scheme to fall upon; and
at first thought of returning in the cha-
racter of another lifeguard-man, pretend-
ing to have been sent by the officer with a
guard in quest of his companion, who not
being found in his quarters, was supposed
to have deserted: and thus, after having
made him pay heartily for all that he had
sufFered under the bed, to leave him to the
enjoyment of his pannic, and the elegant
suit os clothes he had provided him. How-
ever, he was not satisfied with this re-
venge, and determined on one slill more
solid. He went to the guard, and told
the ossicer that he had met a Capuchin
friar, with all the ensigns of his san&ity
about him, sculking through the streets,
in the dead of night, when they pretend
to be employed in prayer for the sins
of mankind. That prompted by curiosity
to follow him, the holy friar as he ex-
pected went straight to the house of a
celebrated courtezan, -that he saw him
admitted*
soxne time what scheme to fall upon; and
at first thought of returning in the cha-
racter of another lifeguard-man, pretend-
ing to have been sent by the officer with a
guard in quest of his companion, who not
being found in his quarters, was supposed
to have deserted: and thus, after having
made him pay heartily for all that he had
sufFered under the bed, to leave him to the
enjoyment of his pannic, and the elegant
suit os clothes he had provided him. How-
ever, he was not satisfied with this re-
venge, and determined on one slill more
solid. He went to the guard, and told
the ossicer that he had met a Capuchin
friar, with all the ensigns of his san&ity
about him, sculking through the streets,
in the dead of night, when they pretend
to be employed in prayer for the sins
of mankind. That prompted by curiosity
to follow him, the holy friar as he ex-
pected went straight to the house of a
celebrated courtezan, -that he saw him
admitted*