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Peregrine, glowing with resentment,
called him a fanfaron, and withdrew in expectation of being followed
into the street. The other understood the hint; and a rencounter
must have ensued had not the officer of the guard, who overheard
what passed, prevented their meeting, by putting the mousquetaire
immediately under arrest. Our young gentleman waited at the door
of the parterre, until he was informed of this interposition, and
then went home very much chagrined at his disappointment; for he
was an utter stranger to fear and diffidence on those occasions,
and had set his heart upon chastising the insolence of this bully,
who had treated him with such disrespect.
This adventure was not so private but that it reached the ears of Mr.
Jolter by the canal of some English gentlemen who were present when
it happened; and the governor, who entertained a most dreadful idea
of the mousquetaires, being alarmed at a quarrel, the consequence
of which might be fatal to his charge, waited on the British
ambassador, and begged he would take Peregrine under his immediate
protection.


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