for't, d'ye see: I thought it was the likeliest way to bring
you up; but, in time to come, you shall have a larger swing
of cable. When you can spare time, I should be glad if you will
make a short trip and see your aunt, and him who is--Your
loving godfather and humble servant,
"Hawser Trunnion.

P.S. If you want money, you may draw upon me payable at sight."

CHAPTER XXVI.

He becomes Melancholy and Despondent--Is favoured with the condescending
Letter from his Uncle--Reconciles himself to his Governor, and sets out
with Emilia and her Friend for Mrs. Gauntlet's House.

Peregrine, fortified as he was with pride and indignation, did not fail
to feel the smarting suggestions of his present situation: after having
lived so long in an affluent and imperious manner, he could ill brook
the thoughts of submitting to the mortifying exigencies of life. All the
gaudy schemes of pomp and pleasure, which his luxuriant imagination had
formed, began to dissolve; a train of melancholy ideas took possession
of his thoughts; and the prospect of losing Emilia was not the least
part of his affliction. Though he endeavoured to suppress the chagrin
that preyed upon his heart, he could not conceal the disturbance of his
mind from the penetration of that amiable young lady, who sympathized
with him in her heart, though she could not give her tongue the liberty
of asking the cause of his disorder; for, notwithstanding all the ardour
of his addresses, he never could obtain from her the declaration of
a mutual flame; because, though he had hitherto treated her with the
utmost reverence of respect, he had never once mentioned the final
aim of his passion. However honourable she supposed it to be, she had
discernment enough to foresee that vanity or interest, co-operating with
the levity of youth, might one day deprive her of her lover, and she was
too proud to give him any handle of exulting at her expense. Although
he was received by her with the most distinguished civility, and even
an intimacy of friendship, all his solicitations could never extort
from her an acknowledgment of love: on the contrary, being of a gay
disposition, she sometimes coquetted with other admirers, that his
attention thus whetted might never abate, and that he might see she had
other resources in case he should flag in his affection.

This being the prudential plan on which she acted, it cannot