He spoke
not a word in answer to this declaration, which he immediately
imputed to the ill offices of the minister, against whom he breathed
defiance and revenge, in his way to the lodgings of Cadwallader;
who, being made acquainted with the manner of his reception, begged
he would desist from all schemes of vengeance, until he, Crabtree,
should be able to unriddle the mystery of the whole, which he did
not doubt of unveiling by means of his acquaintance with a family
in which his lordship often spent the evening at whist.
It was not long before he had the desired opportunity: the nobleman
being under no injunctions or obligation to keep the affair secret,
discovered the young gentleman's misfortune, by way of news, to
the first company in which he happened to be; and Peregrine's name
was not so obscure in the fashionable world, but that his disorder
became the general topic of conversation for a day; so that his
friend soon partook of the intelligence, and found means to learn
the particulars of the minister's information, as above related.
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