He desired Cadwallader to take charge of his
movables, and send to him such linen and clothes as he should have
occasion for in his confinement. But, among all his difficulties,
nothing embarrassed him so much as his faithful Pipes, whom he could
no longer entertain in his service. He knew Tom had made shift to
pick up a competency in the course of his ministration; but that
reflection, though it in some measure alleviated, could not wholly
prevent the mortification he should suffer in parting with an
affectionate adherent, who was by this time become as necessary to
him as one of his own members, and who was so accustomed to live
under his command and protection, that he did not believe the fellow
could reconcile himself to any other way of life.
Crabtree, in order to make him easy on that score, offered to adopt
him in the room of his own valet, whom he would dismiss; though he
observed, that Pipes had been quite spoiled in our hero's service.
But Peregrine did not choose to lay his friend under that inconvenience,
knowing that his present lacquey understood and complied with all
the peculiarities of his humour, which Pipes would never be able
to study or regard; he therefore determined to send him back to
his shipmate Hatchway, with whom he had spent the fore part of his
life.
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