a cutting
reprimand for the scandalous irregularity of his conduct, that all of
them remained crest-fallen, and were ashamed, for many weeks, to appear
in the public execution of their duty.

Peregrine was too vain of his finesse, to conceal the part he acted in
this comedy, with the particulars of which he regaled his companions,
and thereby entailed upon himself the hate and resentment of the
community whose maxims and practices he had disclosed: for he was
considered as a spy, who had intruded himself into their society, with a
view of betraying it; or, at best, as an apostate and renegado from the
faith and principles which he had professed.

CHAPTER XXII.

He is insulted by his Tutor, whom he lampoons--Makes a considerable
Progress in Polite Literature; and, in an Excursion to Windsor, meets
with Emilia by accident, and is very coldly received.

Among those who suffered by his craft and infidelity was Mr. Jumble,
his own tutor, who could not at all digest the mortifying affront he had
received, and was resolved to be revenged on the insulting author. With
this view he watched the conduct of Mr. Pickle with the utmost rancour
of vigilance, and let slip no opportunity of treating him disrespect,
which he knew the disposition of his pupil could less brook than any
other severity it was in his power to exercise.

Peregrine had been several mornings absent from chapel; and as Mr.
Jumble never failed to question him in a very peremptory style about his
non-attendance, he invented some very plausible excuses; but at length
his ingenuity was exhausted: he received a very galling rebuke for his
proffigacy of morals; and, that he might feel it the more sensibly, was
ordered, by way of exercise, to compose a paraphrase in English verse
upon these two lines in Virgil:--

Vane Ligur, frustraque animis elate superbis,
Nequicquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes.

The imposition of this invidious theme had all the desired effect upon
Peregrine, who not only considered it as a piece of unmannerly abuse
leveled against his own conduct, but also a retrospective insult on
the memory of his grandfather, who, as he had been informed, was in his
lifetime more noted for his cunning than candour in trade.

Exasperated at this instance of the pedant's audacity, he had well nigh,
in his first transports, taken corporal satisfaction on the spot;
but, foreseeing the troublesome consequences that would attend such