. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . -proaching quickly ; in myhurry to get my hand outone of my levers gaveway, the lid closed, and Iremained fairly caught,like a rat in a trap ; when,on looking round, I be-held the cardinal at thedoor, with an expressionof malicious triumph inhis countenance. Ah,ah, my friend Guzman,he exclaimed, it is you,is it, to whom I am in-debted for the loss of mysweetest fruit ? I couldnot reply; but the horrible grimaces I made, and my vexation at being thus surprised,gave me so ludicrous an appearance that his eminence co
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . -proaching quickly ; in myhurry to get my hand outone of my levers gaveway, the lid closed, and Iremained fairly caught,like a rat in a trap ; when,on looking round, I be-held the cardinal at thedoor, with an expressionof malicious triumph inhis countenance. Ah,ah, my friend Guzman,he exclaimed, it is you,is it, to whom I am in-debted for the loss of mysweetest fruit ? I couldnot reply; but the horrible grimaces I made, and my vexation at being thus surprised,gave me so ludicrous an appearance that his eminence couldnot avoid laughing. He then called his visitors to enjoy thesight, pointing me out as the little delinquent he had longbeen in search of; and the whole of them appeared to be in-finitely amused at my expense, the cardinal declaring that, asit would be long ere I appeared in a similar situation, he mustmake the best of a bad example. He next called his steward,the man with the hard, gloomy countenance, and, pointingme out, ordered me to receive five and twenty lashes of the. lyo LITBRATURB OF AL,L, NATIONS. sharpest and severest he could give. The cardinals guestsupon this ventured to interfere in my behalf, but all theycould do was to get the sentence commuted for half thenumber of lashes, which they agreed I had well was worse, Domine Niccolo, my mortal enemy, was thearm fixed upon to inflict the horrible stripes in his own apart-ments, and acquitted himself so well of the charge intrustedto him,that I felt the effects of it for more than a monthafterwards. But, if he here indulged his ill will, I was determined not tobe behindhand with him, and I accomplished my vengeancein the following manner. It was then the season for gnats,which could bite as well as Master Niccolo, and showed aslittle respect to his stewardship as to other people. He com-plained bitterly of their disturbing his rest. Sir, said I, you may be rid of them whenever you please; in Spain wehav
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