With this
view be returned the salute, and raised such a clatter about the
squire's pate, that one who had heard without seeing the application,
would have taken the sound for that of a salt-box, in the hand
of a dexterous merry-andrew, belonging to one of the booths at
Bartholomew-fair. Neither was this salutation confined to his head:
his shoulders, arms, thighs, ankles, and ribs, were visited with
amazing rapidity, while Tom Pipes sounded the charge through his
fist. Peregrine, tired with his exercise, which had almost bereft
his enemy of sensation, at last struck the decisive blow, in
consequence of which the squire's weapon flew out of his grasp,
and he allowed our hero to be the better man. Satisfied with this
acknowledgment, the victor walked upstairs with such elevation of
spirits and insolence of mien, that nobody chose to intimate the
resolution, which had been taken in his absence; there, having
amused himself for some time in beholding the country-dances, he
retreated to his lodging, where he indulged himself all night in
the contemplation of his own success.
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