CHAPTER LXXXII.
He persuades Cadwallader to assume the Character of a Magician, in
which he acquires a great Share of Reputation, by his Responses to
three Females of Distinction, who severally consult the Researches
of his Art.
His heart being thus, as it were, suspended between two objects
that lessened the force of each other's attraction, he took this
opportunity of enjoying some respite, and for the present detached
his sentiments from both, resolving to indulge himself in the exercise
of that practical satire which was so agreeable and peculiar in
his disposition. In this laudable determination he was confirmed
by the repeated suggestions of his friend Cadwallader, who taxed
him with letting his talents rust in indolence, and stimulated
his natural vivacity with a succession of fresh discoveries in the
world of scandal.
Peregrine was now seized with a strange whim, and when he communicated
the conceit to Cadwallader, it in a moment acquired his approbation.
This notion he imparted in a proposal to subject the town to their
ridicule, by giving responses to the character of a professed
conjurer, to be personated by the old misanthrope, whose aspect was
extremely well calculated for the purpose.
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