These penitential reflections
were attended with many laudable resolutions of profiting by the
experience which he had so dearly purchased; but he was one of those
philosophers who always put off till another day the commencement
of their reformation.
CHAPTER LXXXVI.
Peregrine receives a letter from Hatchway, in consequence of which
he repairs to the Garrison, and performs the last Offices to his
Aunt--He is visited by Mr. Gauntlet, who invites him to his Marriage.
In this circle of amusements our hero's time was parcelled out, and
few young gentlemen of the age enjoyed life with greater relish,
notwithstanding those intervening checks of reason, which served
only to whet his appetite for a repetition of the pleasures she
so prudently condemned; when he received the following letter, by
which he was determined to visit his estate in the country:
Cousin Pickle,--I hope you are in a better trim than your
aunt, who hath been fast moored to her bed these seven weeks,
by several feet of under-water lodging in her hold and
hollop, whereby I doubt her planks are rotted, so that she
cannot choose but fall to pieces in a short time.
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