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inclination was so much praised, encouraged, and promoted by his
godson, and even supported by his councilor Hatchway, that our
hero was empowered to present him with a sum of money sufficient
to purchase a commission.
Though nothing could be more agreeable to Pickle than this permission,
he was afraid that Godfrey's scrupulous disposition would hinder
him from subjecting himself to any such obligation; and therefore
proposed that he should be decoyed into his own interest by a
feigned story, in consequence of which he would be prevailed upon
to accept of the money, as a debt which the commodore had contracted
of his father at sea. Trunnion made wry faces at this expedient,
the necessity of which he could not conceive, without calling in
question the common sense of Gauntlet; as he took it for granted that
such offers as those were not to be rejected on any consideration
whatever. Besides, he could not digest an artifice, by which he
himself must own that he had lived so many years without manifesting
the least intention of doing justice to his creditor.


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