This did not tend to dispel the dismay of his friend, who, after
some recollection, "I wonder," said he, "that you have never killed
your man before. Pray how may you have disposed of the body?" Pickle
having recovered the faculty of speech, ordered his lacquey out of
the room, and, in a most incoherent detail, made Crabtree acquainted
with the perfidious conduct of the minister.
The confidant was very glad to find his fears disappointed; for he
had really concluded that some life was lost. Perceiving the youth
too much agitated to be treated by him in his usual style, he owned
that Sir Steady was a rascal, and encouraged Pickle with the hope
of being one day able to make reprisals upon him; in the mean time
offered him money for his immediate occasions, exhorted him to exert
his own qualifications in rendering himself independent of such
miscreants, and finally counselled him to represent his wrongs to
the nobleman whom he had formerly obliged, with a view of interesting
that peer in his behalf or at least of obtaining a satisfactory
explanation from the minister, that he might take no premature
measures of revenge.
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