He was offended at this proof
of his memory, and so much enraged at his presumption in exhibiting
it, that he could never forgive his want of reverence, and took
every opportunity of exposing his ignorance and folly in the sequel.
Indeed, the ties of private affection were too weak to engage the
heart of this republican, whose zeal for the community had entirely
swallowed up his concern for individuals. He looked upon particular
friendship as a passion unworthy of his ample soul, and was
a professed admirer of L. Manlius, Junius Brutus, and those later
patriots of the same name, who shut their ears against the cries
of nature, and resisted all the dictates of gratitude and humanity.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Pallet conceives a hearty Contempt for his Fellow-traveller, and
attaches himself to Pickle, who, nevertheless, persecutes him with
his mischievous Talent upon the Road to Flanders.
In the mean time, his companion, having employed divers pailfuls
of water in cleansing himself from the squalor of jail, submitted
his face to the barber, tinged his eye-brows with a sable hue, and,
being dressed in his own clothes, ventured to visit Peregrine, who
was still under the hands of his valet-de-chambre, and who gave
him to understand that his escape had been connived at, and that
the condition of their deliverance was their departure from Paris
in three days.
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