ador was therefore obliged to talk in very high terms; and,
though the present circumstances of the French politics would not allow
them to fall out with the British administration for trifles, all the
favour he could procure was to promise that Pickle should L set at
liberty, provided he would ask pardon of the prince to whom he had given
offence.

His excellency thought this was but a reasonable condescension,
supposing Peregrine to have been in the wrong; and Jolter was admitted
to him in order to communicate and reinforce his lordship's advice,
which was, that he comply with the terms proposed. The governor, who
did not enter this gloomy fortress without fear and trembling, found
his pupil in a dismal apartment, void of all furniture but a stool and
a truckle-bed. The moment he was admitted, he perceived the youth
whistling with great unconcern, and working with his pencil at the bare
wall, on which he had delineated a ludicrous figure labelled with the
name of the nobleman, whom he had affronted, and an English mastiff with
his leg lifted up, in the attitude of making water in his shoe. He
had been even so presumptuous as to explain the device with satirical
inscriptions in the French language, which, when Jolter perused, his
hair stood on end with affright. The very turnkey was confounded and
overawed by the boldness of his behaviour, which he had never seen
matched by any inhabitant of that place; and actually joined his friend
in persuading him to submit to the easy demand of the minister. But our
hero, far from embracing the counsel of this advocate, handed him to the
door with great ceremony, and dismissed him with a kick on the breeches;
and, to all the supplications, and even tears of Jolter, made no other
reply than that he would stoop to no condescension, because he had
committed no crime, but would leave his case to the cognisance and
exertion of the British court, whose duty it was to see justice done to
its own subjects: he desired, however, that Pallet, who was confined
in another place, might avail himself of his own disposition, which
was sufficiently pliable; but when the governor desired to see his
fellow-prisoner, the turnkey gave him to understand that he had received
no orders relating to the lady, and therefore could not admit him into
her apartment; though he was complaisant enough to tell him that she
seemed very much mortified at her confinement, and at certain times
behaved as if her brain