Pickle, for
having been the immediate cause of my disaster. If you had stood
by me from the beginning, according to your promise, I should not
have been teased by that coxcomb who has brought me to this pass.
And why did I put on this d--d unlucky dress? Lord curse that
chattering Jezebel of a landlady, who advised such a preposterous
disguise!--a disguise which has not only brought me to this pass,
but also rendered me abominable to myself, and frightful to others;
for when I this morning signified to the turnkey that I wanted to
be shaved, he looked at my beard with astonishment, and, crossing
himself, muttered his Pater Noster, believing me, I suppose, to
be a witch, or something worse. And Heaven confound that loathsome
banquet of the ancients, which provoked me to drink too freely,
that I might wash away the taste of that accursed sillikicaby."
Our young gentleman, having heard this lamentation to an end,
excused himself for his conduct by representing that he could not
possibly foresee the disagreeable consequences that attended it;
and in the mean time strenuously counselled him to submit to the
terms of his enlargement.
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