Pallet protested,
that there was no dissimulation in the case; for he was ignorant
of his own weakness, until his resolution was put to the trial: he
faithfully promised to demean himself, during the remaining part of
the tour, with that conscious modesty and penitence which became
a person in his condition; and, for the present, implored the
assistance of Mr. Pipes, in disembarrassing him from the disagreeable
consequence of his fear.
CHAPTER LXIV.
The Doctor exults in his Victory--They set out for Rotterdam, where
they are entertained by two Dutch Gentlemen in a Yacht, which is
overturned in the Maese, to the manifest hazard of the Painter's
Life--They spend the Evening with their Entertainers, and next Day
visit a Cabinet of Curiosities.
Tom was accordingly ordered to administer to his occasions; and
the conqueror, elated with his success, which he in a great measure
attributed to his manner of attack, and the hymn which he howled,
told Peregrine, that he was now convinced of the truth of what
Pindar sung in these words, ossa de me pephileke Zeus atuzontai boan
Pieridon aionta; for he had no sooner begun to repeat the mellifluent
strains of that divine poet, than the wretch his antagonist was
confounded, and his nerves unstrung.
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