ess of their imposition.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Peregrine takes leave of his Aunt and Sister--Sets out from the
Garrison-Parts with his Uncle and Hatchway on the Road, and with his
Governor arrives in safety at Dover.

This, however, was the last effort of invention which they practised
upon him; and everything being now prepared for the departure of his
godson, that hopeful youth in two days took leave of all his friends in
the neighbourhood. He was closeted two whole hours with his aunt, who
enriched him with many pious advices, recapitulated all the benefits
which, through her means, had been conferred upon him since his infancy,
cautioned him against the temptations of lewd women, who bring many a
man to a morsel of bread, laid strict injunctions upon him to live in
the fear of the Lord and the true Protestant faith, to eschew quarrels
and contention, to treat Mr. Jolter with reverence and regard, and above
all things to abstain from the beastly sin of drunkenness, which
exposes a man to the scorn and contempt of his fellow-creatures, and, by
divesting him of reason and reflection, renders him fit for all manner
of vice and debauchery. She recommended to him economy, and the care of
his health, bade him remember the honour of his family, and in all the
circumstances of his behaviour, assured him that he might always depend
upon the friendship and generosity of the commodore. Finally, presenting
him with her own picture set in gold, and a hundred guineas from her
privy purse, she embraced him affectionately, and wished him all manner
of happiness and prosperity.

Being thus kindly dismissed by Mrs. Trunnion, he locked himself up with
his sister Julia, whom he admonished to cultivate her aunt with the
most complaisant and respectful attention, without stooping to any
circumstance of submission that she should judge unworthy of her
practice: he protested that his chief study should be to make her amends
for the privilege she had forfeited by her affection for him; entreated
her to enter into no engagement without his knowledge and approbation;
put into her hand the purse, which he had received from his aunt, to
defray her pocket expenses in his absence; and parted from her, not
without tears, after she had for some minutes hung about his neck,
kissing him, and weeping in the most pathetic silence.

Having performed these duties of affection and consanguinity over-night,
he went to bed, and was, by his own dir