the same fate, had not Peregrine started up, and
snatching the paper from the flames, ordered his valet to forbear, on
pain of being banished for ever from his sight. He told him that, for
the present, there was a necessity for his being dismissed, and he
discharged him accordingly; but, if he would go and live quietly
with the lieutenant, he promised, on the first favourable turn of his
fortune, to take him again into his service. In the meantime he gave him
to understand, that he neither wanted, nor would make use of his money,
which he insisted upon his pocketing immediately, on pain of forfeiting
all title to his favour.

Pipes was very much chagrined at these injunctions, to which he made
no reply; but, sweeping the money into his bag, stalked off in silence,
with a look of grief and mortification, which his countenance had never
exhibited before. Nor was the proud heart of Pickle unmoved upon the
occasion; he could scarce suppress his sorrow in the presence of Pipes,
and, soon as he was gone, it vented itself in tears.

Having no great pleasure in conversing with his own thoughts, he dressed
himself with all convenient despatch, being attended by one of the
occasional valets of the place, who had formerly been a rich mercer in
the city; and, this operation being performed, he went to breakfast
at the coffee-house, where he happened to meet with his friend the
clergyman and several persons of genteel appearance, to whom the doctor
introduced him as a new messmate. By these gentlemen he was conducted to
a place where they spent the forenoon in playing at fives, an exercise
in which our hero took singular delight; and about one o'clock a court
was held, for the trial of two delinquents, who had transgressed the
laws of honesty and good order. The first who appeared at the bar was
an attorney, accused of having picked a gentleman's pocket of his
handkerchief. And the fact being proved by incontestable evidence, he
received sentence. In consequence of which, he was immediately carried
to the public pump, and subjected to a severe cascade of cold water.
This cause being discussed, they proceeded to the trial of the other
offender, who was a lieutenant of a man-of-war, indicted for a riot,
which he had committed in company with a female, not yet taken, against
the laws of the place, and the peace of his fellow-prisoners. The
culprit had been very obstreperous, and absolutely refused to obey the
summons, with many expre