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Our hero, glowing
with indignation at this supercilious treatment, "I was in the
wrong," said he, "to look for good manners so far on this side
of Temple-bar; but you must give me leave to tell you, sir, that
unless I am favoured with an interview with Miss Gauntlet, I shall
conclude that you have actually laid a constraint upon her inclination,
for some sinister purposes of your own."--"Sir," replied the old
gentleman, "you are welcome to make what conclusions shall seem
good unto your own imagination; but pray be so good as to allow me
the privilege of being master in my own house." So saying, he very
complaisantly showed him to the door; and our lover being diffident
of his own temper, as well as afraid of being used with greater
indignity, in a place where his personal prowess would only serve
to heighten his disgrace, quitted the house in a transport of rage,
which he could not wholly suppress, telling the landlord, that if
his age did not protect him, he would have chastised him for his
insolent behaviour.


CHAPTER LXXVIII.


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