Volume II Part 65 (1/2)

”Where can I get sonorant and gossiping fellow about

Next day he told ned e, but that he would give me an account of his expenditure every month, and that he would spend the surplus on what I liked

”Get me the Leyden Gazette twice a week”

”I can't do that, because it is not allowed by the authorities”

Sixty-five livres a month was more than I wanted, since I could not eat reat heat and the want of proper nourishth of the sun's rays upon the lead of the roof made my cell like a stove, so that the streams of perspiration which rolled off my poor body as I sat quite naked on ht and left of me

I had been in this hell-on-earth for fifteen days without any secretion from the bowels At the end of this alht my last hour was come The haemorrhoidal veins were swollen to such an extent that the pressure on theony To this fatal time I owe the inception of that sad infirmity of which I have never been able to coh not so acute, remind me of the cause, and do not reeable This disease got me compliments in Russia when I was there ten years later, and I found it in such estee happened toof a cold in the head in the presence of a Turk, as thinking, I could see, that a dog of a Christian was not worthy of such a blessing

The sah fever and keptto Lawrence about it, but the day after, on finding my dinner untouched, he asked me hoas

”Very well”

”That can't be, sir, as you have eaten nothing You are ill, and you will experience the generosity of the Tribunal ill provide you, without fee or charge, with a physician, surgeon, and all necessaryafter three hours without guards, holding a candle in his hand, and followed by a grave-looking personage; this was the doctor I was in the height of the fever, which had not left an to ask me questions, but I told him that with my confessor and my doctor I would only speak apart The doctor told Lawrence to leave the roous to do so, he went away saying that I was dangerously ill, possibly unto death For this I hoped, for ood I was soht, on hearing of my condition, be forced to reflect on the cruelty of the treatment to which they had subjected me

Four hours afterwards I heard the noise of bolts oncethe candle himself Lawrence remained outside

I had becorateful restfulness

Kindly nature does not suffer a hted to hear that my infamous turnkey was outside, for since his explanation of the iron collar I had looked an hi

In a quarter of an hour I had told the doctor all

”If ant to get well,” said he, ”we must not be melancholy”

”Write me the prescription, and take it to the only apothecary who can make it up M Cavalli is the bad doctor who exhibited 'The Heart of Jesus,' and 'Tire Mystical City'”

”Those two preparations are quite capable of having brought on the fever and the haethe to drink frequently, he went away I slept soundly, dreaain with Lawrence and a surgeon, who bled me The doctor left , and a bottle of soap ”I have obtained leave,” said he, ”for you to arret where the heat is less, and the air better than here”

”I decline the favour, as I abo about, and which would certainly get into my bed”

”What a pity! I told M Cavalli that he had almost killed you with his books, and he has coive you Boethius; and here it is”

”I aed to you I like it better than Seneca, and I a you a very necessary instrument, and some barley water for you to refresh yourself with”