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SICILY AND MALTA. 129
In the mean time, Pasqual was mug
in his convent, enjoying the sweets of his
adventure. He had a spare cloak and
cowl, and was soon equipped again like
one of the holy fathers; he then took the
clothes and accoutrements of the lifeguard-
man, and laid them in a heap, near the
gate of another convent of Capuchins, but
at a great distance from his own, referVing
only to himself a trisse of money which he
found in the breeches pocket, just to in-
demnify him for the loss of his cloak and
his cowl; and even this, he says, he mould
have held sacred, but he knew whoever
fliould sind the clothes, would make law-
ful prize of it.
The poor soldier remained next day a
speclacle of ridicule to all the world ; at
last his companions heard of his strange
metamorphosis, and came in troops to see
him : their jokes were perhaps still more
galling than those of the guard, but as he
Vol. II. K thought
In the mean time, Pasqual was mug
in his convent, enjoying the sweets of his
adventure. He had a spare cloak and
cowl, and was soon equipped again like
one of the holy fathers; he then took the
clothes and accoutrements of the lifeguard-
man, and laid them in a heap, near the
gate of another convent of Capuchins, but
at a great distance from his own, referVing
only to himself a trisse of money which he
found in the breeches pocket, just to in-
demnify him for the loss of his cloak and
his cowl; and even this, he says, he mould
have held sacred, but he knew whoever
fliould sind the clothes, would make law-
ful prize of it.
The poor soldier remained next day a
speclacle of ridicule to all the world ; at
last his companions heard of his strange
metamorphosis, and came in troops to see
him : their jokes were perhaps still more
galling than those of the guard, but as he
Vol. II. K thought