roper to ask pardon
for the offence he had committed, he would, in all appearance, never
more behold the face of his godson.

The old commodore was utterly confounded at this piece of intelligence:
he had expected all the humility of obedience and contrition from the
young man; and, instead of that, received nothing but the most indignant
opposition, and even found himself in the circumstances of an offender,
obliged to make atonement, or forfeit all correspondence with his
favourite. These insolent conditions at first threw him into an agony of
wrath; and he vented execrations with such rapidity that he left himself
no time to breathe, and had almost been suffocated with his choler.
He inveighed bitterly against the ingratitude of Peregrine, whom he
mentioned with many opprobrious epithets, and swore that he ought to be
keelhauled for his presumption; but when he began to reflect more coolly
upon the spirit of the young gentleman, which had already manifested
itself on many occasions, and listened to the suggestions of Hatchway,
whom he had always considered as an oracle in his way, his resentment
abated, and he determined to take Perry into favour again; this
placability being not a little facilitated by Jack's narrative of our
hero's intrepid behaviour at the assembly, as well as the contest with
him in the park. But still this plaguy amour occurred like a bugbear to
his imagination; for he held it as an infallible maxim, that woman was
an eternal source of misery to man. Indeed, this apophthegm he seldom
repeated since his marriage, except in the company of a very few
intimates, to whose secrecy and discretion he could trust. Finding
Jack himself at a nonplus in the affair of Emilia, he consulted Mrs.
Trunnion, who was equally surprised and offended when she understood
that her letter did not produce the desired effect; and after having
imputed the youth's obstinacy to his uncle's unseasonable indulgence,
had recourse to the advice of the parson, who, still with an eye to his
friend's advantage, counselled them to send the young gentleman on his
travels, in the course of which he would, in all probability, forget
the amusements of his greener years. The proposal was judicious, and
immediately approved; when Trunnion, going into his closet, after divers
efforts, produced the following billet, with which Jack departed for
Windsor that same afternoon:--

"My good lad,--If I gave offence in my last letter I'm sorry