But though the battle was ended,
it was impossible, for that evening, to restore harmony and good
order to the society, which broke up, after the president had
pronounced a short and confused apology to our adventurer, for
the indecent uproar which had unfortunately happened on the first
night of his admission. Indeed, Peregrine deliberated with himself,
whether or not his reputation would allow him to appear again
among this venerable fraternity; but, as he knew some of them to
be men of real genius, how ridiculous soever their carriage might
be modified, and was of that laughing disposition, which is always
seeking food for mirth, as Horace observes of Philippus:
Risus undique quaerit;--
he resolved to frequent the college, notwithstanding this accident,
which happened at his inauguration; being thereto, moreover, induced
by his desire of knowing the private history of the stage, with
which he supposed some of the members perfectly well acquainted.
He was also visited, before the next meeting, by his introductor,
who assured him, that such a tumult had never happened since the
first institution of the assembly, till that very night; and promised
that, for the future, he should have no cause to be scandalized at
their behaviour.
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