Peregrine reprimanded him sharply for his
unmannerly behaviour, and insisted upon his asking pardon of those
he had injured upon the spot: but no consideration was efficacious
enough to produce such concession; to this command he was both
deaf and dumb; and the repeated threats of his master had no more
effect than if they had been addressed to a marble statue. At
length, our hero, incensed at his obstinacy, started up, and would
have chastised him with manual operation, had not he been prevented
by the chevalier, who found means to moderate his indignation so
far that he contented himself with dismissing the offender from his
service; and after having obtained the discharge of the prisoners,
gave them a louis to drink, by way of recompense for the disgrace
and damage they had sustained.
The knight, perceiving our young gentleman very much ruffled at
this accident, and reflecting upon the extraordinary deportment
and appearance of his valet, whose hair had by this time adopted
a grizzled hue, imagined he was some favourite domestic, who had
grown gray in the service of his master's family, and that, of
consequence, he was uneasy at the sacrifice he had made.
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