The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Author:Tobias Smollett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP, XLI. Mr. Jolter threatens to have him on account of his mifconduft, which te promifes to reflify; tut bis resolution is defeated by the impetuoftty ... more »of his 'af- fi3ns He meets accidentally with Mrs. Horn- beck, tvho elopes with him from her hit/band, but is reJJored by the interpofition of the Britifh am- baj/adar. THOUGH Mr. Jolter was extremely well pleafed at the fatety of his pupil, he could not forgive him for the terror and anxiety he had undergone on his account; and roundly told him, that notwithftanding the inclination and attachment he had to his perfon, he would immediately depart for England, if ever he fhould hear of his being involved in fuch another adventure ; for it could not be expected that he would facri- fice his own quiet, to an unrequited regard for one who feemed determined to keep him in continual uneafmefs and apprehenfion. To this declaration Pickle made anfwer, that Mr. Jolter, by this time, ought to be convinced of the attention he had always paid to his eafe and fatisfa« less