Excerpt from The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Vol. 1 of 3 Here is interred the soul - a soul interred -who the devil could be the author of such a wise epitaph So saying, he got up and went away'; while his companion, who was blessed with a greater share of penetration, said to himself, There is certainly some mystery in this afi'air I'll stay in order to unriddle it. Accordingly, his comrade was no sooner out of sight, than he began to dig with his knife all around the stone and succeeded so well, that he got it up, and found beneath it a leathern purse, containing a hundred ducats, and a card, on which was written the followingsentence in Latinz - Who soever thou art who hast wit enough to discover the meaning of the inscription, inherit my money and make a better use of it than I have done: The scholar, rejoicing at his good fortune, placed the stone in its former situation, and walked home to Salamanca with the soul of the licentiate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.