CHAPTER LXXXIII.
Peregrine and his friend Cadwallader proceed in the Exercise of
the Mystery of Fortune-telling, in the course of which they achieve
various Adventures.
These preliminaries being adjusted, our hero forthwith repaired to
a card assembly, which was frequented by some of the most notable
gossips in town, and, having artfully turned the conversation upon
the subject of the fortune-teller, whose talents he pretended to
ridicule, incensed their itch of knowing secrets to such a degree
of impatience, that their curiosity became flagrant, and he took
it for granted, that all or some of them would visit Albumazar on
his very first visiting-day. While Peregrine was thus engaged, his
associate made his appearance in another convocation of fashionable
people, where he soon had the pleasure of hearing the conjurer
brought upon the carpet by an elderly gentlewoman, remarkable for
her inquisitive disposition, who, addressing herself to Cadwallader,
asked, by the help of the finger-alphabet, if he knew anything of
the magician that made such a noise in town.
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