The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle : in Which Are Included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality V.2
The book The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle : in Which Are Included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality V.2 was written by author Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 Here you can read free online of The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle : in Which Are Included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality V.2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle : in Which Are Included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality V.2 a good or bad book?
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This queliion v/as anfsvered by the phyfician, who defcribed the na- ture of this expedient fo little to the fatisfaclion of the officer, that he contradifted him flatly, in the midft of his explandtion ; a circumilance v/hlch provoked the republican to fuch a degree, that in the temerity of his paffion, he uttered the epithet impertinent f:ot(ndrel ! wliich was no fooner pronounced, than the Caledon.ian made manual application to his nofe, and Teaping out of the coach, ftood waiting for him on... the plain ; while lie (the phyfician) made feeble efforts to join him, be- ing eafiiy retained by the other fcldier; n.nd Pallet, dreading the confequence In which he himfelf might be involved, beilov/ed aioiid for prevention. Our hero endeavoured to quiet the commotion, Vjy reprefenting to the Scot, that he had already taken fa- tisfa'5lion for the injury he had received 5 and telling the do6lor that he had deferved the chaiiifement which was infiifted upon him : but the officer (encouraged perhaps by the confufion of his antagonift) infilled up- on his afking pardon for what he had laid 5 and the doftor, believing himfelf under the prote6lion of his friend Pickle, far from agreeing to flich concefRon, breathed nothing but defiance and revenge : fo that the ehevalier, in order to prevent niifchief, put the foldier under FEREGRIXE PICKLE.
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