Meanwhile, he despatched his attendant for wine to the coffee-house,
and finding his credit bolstered up in that place by the same means,
was enraged at the presumption of Jack's friendship. He questioned
the valet about it with such manifestation of displeasure, that
the fellow, afraid of disobliging such a good master, frankly
communicated the story which was circulated at his expense. The
young gentleman was so much incensed at this piece of intelligence,
that he wrote a bitter expostulation to the lieutenant, where he
not only retracted his invitation, but declared that he would never
converse with him while he should remain within the place.
Having thus obeyed the dictates of his anger, he gave notice to
the cook, that he should not have occasion for what was ordered.
Repairing to the coffee-house, he told the landlord, that whereas
he understood the stranger with the wooden leg had prepossessed him
and others with ridiculous notions, tending to bring the sanity of
his intellects in question, and, to confirm this imputation, had,
under the pretence of consanguinity, undertaken to defray his
expenses; he could not help, in justice to himself, declaring,
that the same person was, in reality, the madman, who had given
his keepers the slip; that, therefore, he, the landlord, would not
find his account in complying with his orders, and encouraging him
to frequent his house; and that, for his own part, he would never
enter the door, or favour him with the least trifle of his custom,
if ever he should for the future find himself anticipated in his
payments by that unhappy lunatic.
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