Gijón

Jovellanos returned to Gijon where he lived in dignified retirement for two years and a half.

But one of the throng that had pressed into the shop informed me that they were strangers, and had been but a few days in Gijon.

She told me that they had been in Gijon only nine days, having come to visit a nun who was her mother's sister.

The idea that she might think that I sought payment in annoying gallantry for my service at Gijon was abhorrent.

Godoy returned to power in 1798; Jovellanos was again sent to Gijon, but in 1801 was thrown into prison in Majorca.