She therefore admitted the apologies
of her bed-fellow, provided he would promise to atone by marriage
for the injury she had sustained; and in this particular he set her
heart at ease by repeated vows, which he uttered with surprising
volubility, though without any intention to perform the least title
of their contents.
Peregrine, who had been alarmed by her exclamation, and ran
to the door with a view of interposing according to the emergency
of the case, overhearing the affair thus compromised, returned to
his mistress, who was highly entertained with an account of what
had passed, foreseeing that for the future she should be under no
difficulty or restriction from the severity of her guard.
CHAPTER LX.
Hornbeck is informed of his Wife's Adventure with Peregrine, for
whom he prepares a Stratagem, which is rendered ineffectual by the
Information of Pipes--The Husband is ducked for his Intention, and
our Hero apprehended by the Patrol.
There was another person, however, still ungained; and that was no
other than her footman, whose secrecy our hero attempted to secure
in the morning by a handsome present, which he received with many
professions of gratitude and devotion to his service; yet this
complaisance was nothing but a cloak used to disguise the design he
harboured of making his master acquainted with the whole transaction.
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