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Aurora de Guzmán

A lovely, clear-eyed young woman who hires Gil Blas to spy on her suitor and pays him handsomely for the truth, however bitter.

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Also known as Aurora, the lovely Aurora

First appearance: iv

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Aurora de Guzmán moves in the genteel circles of Valladolid, where her beauty draws suitors and her sense of honor governs her heart. When Gil Blas reports that Don Lewis Pacheco has been keeping company with actresses, she sighs, pays twenty pistoles for the bad news, and vows to tear a deep-rooted passion from her breast. Her struggle between desire and self-respect gives the novel one of its sharpest early portraits of a woman using wit and will to manage what feeling cannot.

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Chapter I
Don Vincent's daughter; Gil Blas believes she shows him special favor and arranges a private midnight meeting.
Chapter II
Reveals her love for Don Lewis Pacheco and commissions Gil Blas to investigate him.
Chapter III
After her father's death, Aurora inherits his estate and devises a plan to disguise herself as Don Felix to win Don Lewis Pacheco's love.
Chapter V
Disguised as Don Felix; orchestrates the plot to separate Don Lewis from Isabella.
VI
Disguised as Don Felix de Mendoza, she orchestrates a plot to win Don Lewis Pacheco's love.
VII
Rewards Gil Blas with a hundred pistoles and recommends him to Don Gonzales Pacheco.

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