While they settled themselves in this manner, and acquired familiar
connections round all the purlieus of the ditch, Peregrine found
himself deprived of the company of Cadwallader, who signified, by
letter, that he did not choose to hazard his person again in visiting
him, while such assassins occupied the avenues through which he
must pass; for he had been at pains to inquire into the motions of
the seamen, and informed himself exactly of the harbour in which
they were moored.
Our hero had been so much accustomed to the conversation of
Crabtree, which was altogether suitable to the singularity of his
own disposition, that he could very ill afford to be debarred of
it at this juncture, when almost every other source of enjoyment
was stopped. He was, however, obliged to submit to the hardships
of his situation; and as the characters of his fellow-prisoners
did not at all improve upon him, he was compelled to seek for
satisfaction within himself. Not but that he had an opportunity
of conversing with some people who neither wanted sense, nor were
deficient in point of principle; yet there appeared in the behaviour
of them all, without exception, a certain want of decorum, a squalor
of sentiment, a sort of jailish cast contracted in the course of
confinement, which disgusted the delicacy of our hero's observation.
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