P.S. If you want money, you may draw upon me payable at sight,"
CHAPTER XXVI.
He becomes Melancholy and Despondent--Is favoured with the condescending
Letter from his Uncle--Reconciles himself to his Governor, and sets
out with Emilia and her Friend for Mrs. Gauntlet's House.
Peregrine, fortified as he was with pride and indignation, did not
fail to feel the smarting suggestions of his present situation:
after having lived so long in an affluent and imperious manner,
he could ill brook the thoughts of submitting to the mortifying
exigencies of life. All the gaudy schemes of pomp and pleasure,
which his luxuriant imagination had formed, began to dissolve; a
train of melancholy ideas took possession of his thoughts; and the
prospect of losing Emilia was not the least part of his affliction.
Though he endeavoured to suppress the chagrin that preyed upon his
heart, he could not conceal the disturbance of his mind from the
penetration of that amiable young lady, who sympathized with him
in her heart, though she could not give her tongue the liberty of
asking the cause of his disorder; for, notwithstanding all the ardour
of his addresses, he never could obtain from her the declaration of
a mutual flame; because, though he had hitherto treated her with
the utmost reverence of respect, he had never once mentioned the
final aim of his passion.
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