CHAPTER XLII.
Peregrine resolves to return to England--Is diverted with the odd
Characters of two of his Countrymen, with whom he contracts an
acquaintance in the Apartments of the Palais Royal.
In the mean time our hero received a letter from his aunt, importing
that the commodore was in a very declining way, and longed much to
see him at the garrison; and at the same time he heard from his
sister, who gave him to understand that the young gentleman, who had
for some time made his addresses to her, was become very pressing
in his solicitations; so that she wanted to know in what manner
she should answer his repeated entreaties. Those two considerations
determined the young gentleman to retain to his native country; a
resolution that was far from being disagreeable to Jolter, who knew
that the incumbent on a living which was in the gift of Trunnion
was extremely old, and that it would be his interest to be upon
the spot at the said incumbent's decease.
Peregrine, who had resided about fifteen months in France, thought
he was now sufficiently qualified for eclipsing most of his
contemporaries in England, and therefore prepared for his departure
with infinite alacrity; being moreover inflamed with the most ardent
desire of revisiting his friends, and renewing his connections,
particularly with Emilia, whose heart he by this time, thought he
was able to reduce on his own terms.
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