Volume II Part 2 (1/2)
”Let hieon; ”and if he be not civil to a Countryood as he, I will kick him back to his Inn, and you too”
”A desperate youth!” reat bundle of towels; ”and very entleman dried and dressed his of Pride, I should have gone on ly Poor, and thought it Foolish to throay the chance of receiving what his Generosity -Man, who had been already paid his Fee, had the i the gentleynantly refused, and, not relishi+ng, perchance, the likelihood of a scuffle with three Englishhtway decamped
By and by the Gentleman was dressed, and a very s frock laced with silver, a yelloaistcoat bound with black velvet, green paduasoy breeches, red stockings, gold buckles, an ivory hilt to his sword, and a white feather in his hat I have no mind to write out Taylor's accompts, but I do declare this to be the exact Schedule of his Equipment Under the hat, which had a kind of Sunday Marylabonne cock to it, there bulged forth aof fleecy curls, for all the world like the coat of a Bologna Poodle Dog, and in thethere peeped out a little hatchet face with lantern jaws, and blue gills, and a pair of great black eyebrows, under which glistened a pair of inflamed eyes He was not above five feet three inches, and his fingers, very long and skinny, went to and fro under his Point ruffles like a Lobster's Feelers The Chaplain, aited upon him as a Maid would on a lardy-dardy woman of Fashi+on, handed olden knob at the end on't, and with this, and a laced handkerchief and a long cravat, which he had likely bought at Mechlin, and a Snuff-box in the lean little Paw that held not the cane, he looked for all the world like one ofMaster
”This, younga lo as he spoke to the coe before him, ”is Bartholomew Pinchin, Esquire, of Hampstead Make your reverence, sirrah!”
”Make a reverence to a Rag-doll!” I answered, with a sneer ”He hath left his twin brother beyond sea I know hiue is insolent,” says B Pinchin, Esq, clutching tighter at his tall cane, but turning very white the while ”I must batoon hireat voice,a step towards him, for my blood was up I would but have tweaked the little creature's Ears; but he, for a surety, thought I had a mind to Murder him I do aver that he fell upon his knees, and with most piteous Accents and Protestations entreated me, for the sake of his Maivetowards the Parson, asked if his master was Mad; to which he made ansith some Heat, that he was no Master of his, but his Honoured Friend and Gracious Patron; whereupon the little Sparkabout hi me
”Body o' , ”I lish eive up the ghost, and I pull you out; and then you callof you Was it cra to drink better entleman alone”
The Parson bowed his head with a pleased look when I called him Reverend and a Gentleman, and, in an under-tone, told his Patron that I was a civilly behaved youth, after all But the Poltroon with the white as not out of his Pother yet He had risen to his feet with a patch of sand on each knee, and as the Chaplain wiped it off with a kerchief, he blubbered out that I wanted to rob hiyerous looking Fellow, and ht lose my temper anon to some tune: for h, tells ed for what I had done for him ”And you will take this,” says he I will be shot if he did not give lish coin changed in the town,” he observed with a sazed upon this paltry doit
I was desperatelyit at him, knock him and the Chaplain down, and leave the precious pair to pick theain, but I forebore ”Well,” I said, ”if that's the value you put upon your life, I can't grumble at your Guerdon I suppose that shrivelled little carcass of yours isn't worth e it in town, and buy fourpennyworth of Dutch cheese, and you shall have the parings for nothing to send to your Ma to you,I walked away in a Fu, that sa the Main street of Ostend verydown to the Port to seek a cook's place froe as an Able-bodied Mariner, when Iout of a pastry both him and his master in Disdain, but he Arrested me, and beckoned me into an Entry, there to have some Speech
”My Patron is somewhat quick and hasty, and was unco,” quoth the Rev Mr Hodge ”Nor perhaps did he use you as liberally as he should have done Here is a golden guilder for you, honest man”
I thanked him, and as I pouched it told him that I would have taken no Money at all for a service which every man is bound to render to his Fellow-creature, but that I was sorely pressed for Money On this, he asked ave him, at the which he winced sohten hi that I had come from the Plantations, where I had been used to keep Accoland, even if I possessed the means to return thither
”I think I can find you a place,” the chaplain replied, when I had finished ”'Twill not be a very handsoht Would it entleman?”
”It depends,” I replied, ”on what kind of a Gentleman he is”
”A Gentlelish gentleood tiland, to live on his Acres in a Handsome manner, and be a justice of peace, and of the Quorum”
”Do youh in the direction where I had
”I do,” responds Mr Hodge
”Bartholomew Pinchin, of Hampstead, Esquire, eh?” I continued
”Exactly so”
”Then,” I went on, raising lance at my companion, ”I'll see Bartholomew Pinchin boiled, and I'll see Bartholomew Pinchin baked, and his Esquireshi+p to boot, before I'll be his servant He, a , pinchbeck hound! Tell him I'm meat for his master, and that he has no service, body or lip, of e, not in the least offended
”What a wild young colt it is, and how iure, now, I doubt whether you are twenty years of age”
I answered, with so like a Blush, that I was not yet seventeen