The affronted gallant persevered in demanding to know who she was,
and our hero as strenuously refused to give him that satisfaction:
so that high words ensued; and the prince threatening to punish
his insolence, the young gentleman, who was not supposed to know
his quality, pointed to the place where his own sword used to hang,
and, snapping his fingers in his face, laid hold on the painter's
arm, and led him to another part of the room, leaving his antagonist
to the meditations of his own revenge.
Pallet, having chid his conductor for his barbarous desertion, made
him acquainted with the difficulty in which he had been involved;
and flatly telling him he would not put it in his power to give him
the slip again, held fast by his arm during the remaining part of
the entertainment, to the no small diversion of the company, whose
attention was altogether engrossed in the contemplation of such
an awkward, ungainly, stalking apparition. At last Pickle, being
tired of exhibiting this raree-show, complied with the repeated
desires of his companion, and handed her into the coach; which he
himself had no sooner entered, than they were surrounded by a file
of musqueteers, commanded by an exempt, who, ordering the coach-door
to be opened, took his place with great deliberation, while one of
his detachment mounted the box, in order to direct the driver.
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