is declaration, and so much offended
at Peregrine's disrespect, that he could not help expressing his
displeasure, by telling him flatly, that he was too violent and
headstrong to be reclaimed by reason and gentle means; that he (the
tutor) must be obliged, in the discharge of his duty and conscience, to
inform the commodore of his pupil's imprudence; that if the laws of this
realm were effectual, they would take cognizance of the gipsy who
had led him astray; and observed, by way of contrast, that if such
a preposterous intrigue had happened in France, she would have been
clapped up in a convent two years ago. Our lover's eyes kindled with
indignation, when he heard his mistress treated with such irreverence:
he could scarce refrain from inflicting manual chastisement on the
blasphemer, whom he reproached in his wrath as an arrogant pedant,
without either delicacy or sense, and cautioned him against rising any
such impertinent freedoms with his affairs for the future on pain of
incurring more severe effects of his resentment.

Mr. Jolter, who entertained very high notions of that veneration to
which he thought himself entitled by his character and qualifications,
had not borne, without repining, his want of influence and authority
over his pupil, against whom he cherished a particular grudge ever since
the adventure of the painted eye; and therefore, on this occasion, his
politic forbearance had been overcome by the accumulated motives of his
disgust. Indeed, he would have resigned his charge with disdain, had
not he been encouraged to persevere, by the hopes of a good living which
Trunnion had in his gift, or known how to dispose of himself for the
present to better advantage.

CHAPTER XXV.

He receives a Letter from his Aunt, breaks with the Commodore, and
disobliges the Lieutenant, who, nevertheless, undertakes his Cause.

Meanwhile he quitted the youth in high dudgeon, and that same evening
despatched a letter for Mrs. Trunnion, which was dictated by the
first transports of his passion, and of course replete with severe
animadversions on the misconduct of his pupil. In consequence of this
complaint, it was not long before Peregrine received an epistle from his
aunt, wherein she commemorated all the circumstances of the commodore's
benevolence towards him, when he was helpless and forlorn, deserted and
abandoned by his own parents; upbraided him for his misbehaviour, and
neglect of his tutor's advice;