CHAPTER LXVI.
Peregrine delivers his Letters of Recommendation at London, and
returns to the Garrison, to the unspeakable joy of the Commodore
and his whole Family.
Now that our hero found himself on English ground, his heart dilated
with the proud recollection of his own improvement since he left
his native soil. He began to recognise the interesting ideas of his
tender years; he enjoyed, by anticipation, the pleasure of seeing
his friends in the garrison, after an absence of eighteen months;
and the image of his charming Emily, which other less worthy
considerations had depressed, resumed the full possession of
his breast. He remembered, with shame, that he had neglected the
correspondence with her brother, which he himself had solicited,
and in consequence of which he had received a letter from that young
gentleman, while he lived at Paris. In spite of these conscientious
reflections. he was too self-sufficient to think he should find
any difficulty in obtaining forgiveness for such sins of omission;
and began to imagine that his passion would be prejudicial to the
dignity of his situation, if it should not be gratified upon terms
which formerly his imagination durst not conceive.
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