Exasperated at this outrage, the other saluted Tom's posteriors with
his bayonet, which incommoded him so much that he could no longer
keep his post, but, leaping upon the ground, gave his antagonist
a chuck under the chin, and laid him upon his back, then skipping
over him with infinite agility, absconded among the crowd of coaches,
till he saw the guard mount before and behind upon his master's
fiacre, which no sooner set forward, than he followed at a small
distance, to reconnoitre the place where Peregrine should be
confined. After having proceeded slowly through many windings and
turnings to a part of Paris, in which Pipes was an utter stranger,
the coach stopped at a great gate, with a wicket in the middle,
which, being opened at the approach of the carriage, the prisoners
were admitted; and, the guard returning with the fiacre, Tom
determined to watch in that place all night, that, in the morning,
he might make such observations as might be conducive to the
enlargement of his master.
CHAPTER XLVI.
By the Fidelity of Pipes, Jolter is informed of his Pupil's
fate--Confers with the Physician--Applies to the Ambassador, who,
with great difficulty, obtains the Discharge of the Prisoners on
certain Conditions.
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