If people of the most sedate and insipid life and conversation are
subject to such criticisms, no wonder that they should take place
upon a youth of Peregrine's fiery disposition, which, on some
occasions, would have actually justified any remarks of this kind,
which his greatest enemies could make. He was accordingly represented
as one of those enterprising bucks, who, after having spent their
fortunes in riot and excess, are happily bereft of their understanding,
and consequently insensible of the want and disgrace which they have
entailed upon themselves, Cadwallader himself was so much affected
with the report, that for some time he hesitated in his deliberations
upon our hero, before he could prevail upon himself to communicate
to him the information he had received, or to treat him in
other respects as a man of sound intellects. At length, however,
he ventured to make Pickle acquainted with the particulars he had
learned, imparting them with such caution and circumlocution, as he
thought necessary to prevent the young gentleman from transgressing
all bounds of temper and moderation; but, for once, he was agreeably
deceived in his prognostic.
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