e weight with the
father, who received it with civility, and promised in a day or two to
favour him with a final answer to his demand. He, accordingly, that same
evening consulted his wife, who, being exasperated at the prospect of
her daughter's independency, argued with the most virulent expostulation
against the match, as an impudent scheme of her own planning, with a
view of insulting her parents, towards whom she had already been guilty
of the most vicious disobedience. In short, she used such remonstrances,
as not only averted this weak husband's inclination from the proposal
which he had relished before, but even instigated him to apply for a
warrant to apprehend his daughter, on the supposition that she was about
to bestow herself in marriage without his privity or consent.

The justice of peace to whom this application was made, though he could
not refuse the order, yet, being no stranger to the malevolence of the
mother, which, together with Gamaliel's simplicity, was notorious in the
county, he sent an intimation of what had happened to the garrison; upon
which a couple of sentinels were placed on the gate, and at the pressing
solicitation of the lover, as well as the desire of the commodore, her
brother, and aunt, Julia was wedded without further delay, the ceremony
being performed by Mr. Jolter, because the parish priest prudently
declined any occasion of giving offence, and the curate was too much in
the interest of their enemies to be employed in that office.

This domestic concern being settled to the satisfaction of our hero, he
escorted her next day to the house of her husband, who immediately wrote
a letter to her father, declaring his reasons for having thus superseded
his authority; and Mrs. Pickle's mortification was unspeakable.

That the new-married couple might be guarded against all insult, our
young gentleman and his friend Hatchway, with their adherents, lodged
in Mr. Clover's house for some weeks; during which they visited their
acquaintance in the neighbourhood, according to custom. When the
tranquility of their family was perfectly established, and the contract
of the marriage executed in the presence of the old commodore and his
lady, who gave her niece five hundred pounds to purchase jewels and
clothes, Mr. Peregrine could no longer restrain his impatience to see
his dear Emily; and told his uncle, that next day he proposed to ride
across the country, in order to visit his friend Gauntl