In being detached
from the world, I shall be delivered from folly and ingratitude,
as well as exempted from an expense, which I should have found
it very difficult, if not impracticable, to support; I shall have
little or no temptation to misspend my time, and more undisturbed
opportunity to earn my subsistence, and prosecute revenge. After
all, a jail is the best tub to which a cynic philosopher can retire."
In consequence of these comfortable reflections, he sent a letter
to Mr. Crabtree, with an account of his misfortune, signifying
his resolution to move himself immediately into the Fleet, and
desiring that he would send him some understanding attorney of his
acquaintance, who would direct him into the steps necessary to be
taken for that purpose. The misanthrope, upon the receipt of this
intimation, sent in person to a lawyer, whom he accompanied to
the spunging-house whither the prisoner had by this time retired.
Peregrine was, under the auspices of his director, conducted to
the judges' chamber, where he was left in the custody of a tipstaff;
and, after having paid for a warrant of habeas corpus, by him
conveyed to the Fleet, and delivered to the care of the warden.
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