This point being settled, his
director gave him an account of the different methods of eating,
either singly, in a mess, or at an ordinary, and advised him to
choose the last, as the most reputable, offering to introduce him
next day to the best company in the Fleet, who always dined together
in public.
Pickle having thanked this gentleman for his civilities, and promised
to be governed by his advice, invited him to pass the evening at
his apartment; and, in the meantime, shut himself up with Crabtree,
in order to deliberate upon the wreck of his affairs. Of all his
ample fortune nothing now remained but his wardrobe, which was not
very sumptuous, about thirty guineas in cash, and the garrison,
which the misanthrope counselled him to convert into ready money
for his present subsistence. This advice, however, he absolutely
rejected, not only on account of his having already bestowed it
upon Hatchway during the term of his natural life, but also with
a view of retaining some memorial of the commodore's generosity.
He proposed, therefore, to finish in this retreat the translation
which he had undertaken, and earn his future subsistence by labour
of the same kind.
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