This paroxysm, however, soon subsided into a settled reserve of
gloomy resentment, which he in secret indulged, detaching himself,
as soon as possible, from the company of the soldier, on pretence
of retiring to rest.
While he lay ruminating upon the circumstances of his present
situation, his friend Pipes, who knew the cause of his anxiety,
and firmly believed that Emilia loved his master at her heart,
howsoever she might attempt to disguise her sentiments; I say, Thomas
was taken with a conceit which he thought would set everything to
rights, and therefore put it in execution without further delay.
Laying aside his hat, he ran directly to the house of Sophy's father,
and, affecting an air of surprise and consternation, to which he
had never before been subject, thundered at the door with such an
alarming knock, as in a moment brought the whole family into the
hall. When he was admitted, he began to gape, stare, and pant at
the same time, and made no reply, when Godfrey asked what was the
matter, till Mrs. Gauntlet expressed her apprehensions about his
master.
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