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to his assistance, and rescued him from the horrors of the melancholy
fiend. He resolved to retort her own neglect upon her ungrateful
mistress; his countenance gradually resumed its former serenity; and
though by this time he was pretty well cured of his foppery, he appeared
again at public diversions with an air of gaiety and unconcern, that
Emilia might have a chance of hearing how much, in all likelihood, he
disregarded her disdain.

There are never wanting certain officious persons, who take pleasure in
promoting intelligence of this sort. His behaviour soon reached the ears
of Miss Gauntlet, and confirmed her in the opinion she had conceived
from his letter; so that she fortified herself in her former sentiments,
and bore his indifference with great philosophy, Thus a correspondence,
which had commenced with all the tenderness and sincerity of love,
and every promise of duration, was interrupted in its infancy by a
misunderstanding occasioned by the simplicity of Pipes, who never once
reflected upon the consequences of his deceit.

Though their mutual passion was by these means suppressed for the
present, it was not altogether extinguished, but glowed in secret,
though even to themselves unknown, until an occasion, which afterwards
offered, blew up the latent flame, and love resumed his empire in
their breasts. While they moved, as it were, without the sphere of each
other's attraction, the commodore, hearing that Perry was in danger of
involving himself in some pernicious engagement, resolved, by advice
of Mr. Jolter and his friend the parish priest, to recall him from the
place where he had contracted such imprudent connections, and send him
to the university, where his education might be completed, and his fancy
weaned from all puerile amusements.

This plan had been proposed to his own father, who, as hath been already
observed, stood always neuter in everything that concerned his eldest
son; and as for Mrs. Pickle, she had never heard his name mentioned
since his departure with any degree of temper or tranquility, except
when her husband informed her that he was in a fair way of being ruined
by this indiscreet amour. It was then she began to applaud her own
foresight, which had discerned the mark of reprobation in that vicious
boy, and launched out in comparison between him and Gammy, who, she
observed, was a child of uncommon parts and solidity, and, with the
blessing of God, would be a comfort to his p