Perhaps you may not always be in
the company of one who will halloo for assistance when you are on
the brink of being chastised for your insolence, as I did, when
you brought upon yourself the resentment of that Scot, who, by the
Lord! would have paid you both scot and lot, as Falstaff says, if
the French officer had not put him in arrest."
The physician, to this declamation, which was conveyed through the
key-hole, answered, that he (the painter) was a fellow so infinitely
below his consideration, that his conscience upbraided him with no
action of his life, except that of choosing such a wretch for his
companion and fellow-traveller. That he had viewed his character
through the medium of good-nature and compassion, which had prompted
him to give Pallet an opportunity of acquiring some new ideas
under his immediate instruction; but he had abused his goodness and
condescension in such a flagrant manner, that he was now determined
to discard him entirely from his acquaintance; and desired him,
for the present, to take himself away, on pain of being kicked for
his presumption.
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