Pallet was too much incensed to be intimidated by this threat, which
he retorted with great virulence, defying him to come forth, that
it might appear which of them was best skilled in that pedestrian
exercise, which he immediately began to practise against the door
with such thundering application, as reached the ears of Pickle
and his governor, who coming out into the passage, and seeing him
thus employed, asked if he had forgot the chamber-pots of Alost,
that he ventured to behave in such a manner as entitled him to a
second prescription of the same nature.
The doctor, understanding that there was company at hand, opened
the door in a twinkling, and, springing upon his antagonist like
a tiger, a fierce contention would have ensued, to the infinite
satisfaction of our hero, had not Jolter, to the manifest peril
of his own person, interposed, and partly by force, and partly by
exhortations, put a stop to the engagement before it was fairly
begun. After having demonstrated the indecency of such a vulgar
rencontre, betwixt two fellow-citizens in a foreign land, he
begged to know the cause of their dissension, and offered his good
offices towards an accommodation.
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