Pickle, who was not unacquainted with the sentiments of this
jealous gentleman, did not put much confidence in his promise, and
therefore made divers efforts to enjoy a little private conversation
with his wife; but he was baffled in all his attempts by the
indefatigable vigilance of her keeper, and reaped no other immediate
pleasure from this accidental meeting, than that of a kind squeeze
while he handed her into the coach. However, as he had been witness
to some instances of her invention, and was no stranger to the
favourable disposition of her heart, he entertained some faint
hopes of profiting by her understanding, and was not deceived in
his expectation; for the very next forenoon, a Savoyard called at
the academy, and put the following billet in his hand:--
"Coind Sur,--Heaving the playsure of meating with you at the
osspital of awilheads, I take this lubbertea of latin you
know, that I lotch at the hottail de May cong dangle rouy
Doghouseten, with two postis at the gait, naytheir of um very
hole, ware I shall be at the windore, if in kais you will be
so good as to pass that way at sicks a cloak in the heavening
when Mr.
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