The Conjurer and his Associate execute a Plan of Vengeance2 against certain Infidels who pretend to despise their Art; and Peregrine achieves an Adventure with a young Nobleman.
By these means, the whole variety of characters undisguised passed, as it were, in review before the confederates, who, by divers4 ingenious contrivances, punished the most flagrant offenders5 with as much severity as the nature of their plan would allow. At length they projected a scheme for chastising6 a number of their own acquaintance, who had all along professed7 the utmost contempt for the talent of this conjurer, which they endeavoured to ridicule8 in all companies, where his surprising art was the subject of discourse9; not that they had sense and discernment enough to perceive the absurdity10 of his pretensions11, but affected12 a singularity of opinions, with a view of insulting the inferior understandings of those who were deceived by such an idle impostor.
Peregrine, indeed, for obvious reasons, had always espoused13 their judgment14 in this case, and joined them in reviling15 the public character of his friend. But he knew how far the capacities of those virtuosi extended, and had frequently caught them in the fact of recounting their exploits against the conjurer, which were the productions of their own invention only. On these considerations, his wrath16 was kindled17 against them, and he accordingly concerted measures with his coadjutor, for overwhelming them with confusion and dismay.
In the first place, a report was spread by his emissaries, that the magician had undertaken to entertain their view with the appearance of any person whom his customers should desire to see, whether dead, or at the distance of a thousand leagues. This extraordinary proposal chancing to be the subject of conversation in a place where most of those infidels were assembled, they talked of it in the usual style, and some of them swore the fellow ought to be pilloried18 for his presumption19.
Our hero, seizing this favourable20 opportunity, acquiesced21 in their remarks, and observed, with great vehemence22, that it would be a meritorious23 action to put the rascal24 to the proof, and then toss him in a blanket for non-performance. They were wonderfully pleased with this suggestion, and forthwith determined25 to try the experiment; though, as they understood the apparition26 would be produced to one only at a time, they could not immediately agree in the choice of the person who should stand the first brunt of the magician’s skill. While each of them severally excused himself from this preference on various pretences28, Peregrine readily undertook the post, expressing great confidence of the conjurer’s incapacity to give him the least cause of apprehension29.
This point being settled, they detached one of their number to Crabtree, in order to bespeak30 and adjust the hour and terms of the operation, which he insisted upon performing at his own apartment, where everything was prepared for the occasion. At the appointed time, they went thither31 in a body, to the number of seven, in full expectation of detecting the impostor; and were received with such gloomy formality, as seemed to have an effect upon the countenances32 of some among them; though they were encouraged by the vivacity33 of Pickle34, who affected a double share of petulance35, for the more effectual accomplishment36 of his purpose.
Cadwallader made no reply to the interrogations they uttered, in the levity37 of their insolence38, at the first entrance, but ordered Hadgi to conduct them through the next room, that they might see there was no previous apparatus39 to affright their deputy with objects foreign to his undertaking40. They found nothing but a couple of wax tapers41 burning on a table that stood with a chair by it in the middle of the apartment, and returned to the audience-chamber42, leaving Peregrine by himself, to encounter the phantom43 of that person whom they should, without his knowledge, desire the magician to conjure1 up to his view,
All the doors being shut and the company seated, a profound silence ensued, together with a face of dreadful expectation, encouraged by the blue flame of the candles, which were tipped with sulphur for that purpose, and heightened by the dismal44 sound of a large bell, which Hadgi tolled45 in the ante-chamber. Cadwallader having thus practised upon their ignorance and fear, desired them to name the person to be produced. After some whispers among themselves, one of them took the pen, and, writing the name of Commodore Trunnion upon a slip of paper, put it into the hands of the magician, who rose from his seat, and, opening the door of his closet, displayed to their view a skull47, with thigh48 bones crossed, upon a table covered with black cloth.
This melancholy49 spectacle made a remarkable50 impression upon the imaginations of the company, already prepossessed by the previous ceremony; and they began to survey one another with looks of consternation51, while Cadwallader, shutting himself in the closet, that was contiguous to the chamber in which his friend Peregrine was stationed, thrust the label with his uncle’s name through a small chink in the partition. according to agreement, muttering at the time a sort of gibberish, that increased the panic of his audience; then returning to his chair, the knell52 was tolled again, and Pickle called aloud, “D— n your mummery: why don’t you despatch53?”
This was a signal to Crabtree, who thus certified54 of his having received the paper, stood up and waved his wand in the figure of an S. The motion being thrice performed, their ears were all of a sudden invaded by a terrible noise in the next room, accompanied with the voice of Peregrine, who exclaimed, in a tone of horror and amazement55, “Guard me, Heaven! my Uncle Trunnion!” This ejaculation had such an effect upon the hearers, that two of them swooned with fear, a third fell upon his knees and prayed aloud, while the other three, in a transport of dismay and distraction56, burst open the door, and rushed into the haunted chamber, where they found the table and chair overturned, and Peregrine extended, in all appearance without sense or motion, upon the floor.
They immediately began to chafe57 his temples, and the first symptom of his recovery which they perceived was a hollow groan58; after which he pronounced these words: “Merciful powers! if I live I saw the commodore with his black patch, in the very clothes he wore at my sister’s wedding.” This declaration completed their astonishment59 and terror; they observed a wildness in his looks, which he seemed to bend on something concealed60 from their view; and were infected by his appearance to such a pitch of superstition61, that it would have been an easy matter to persuade them that the chair and table were apparitions62 of their forefathers63. However, they conducted Peregrine into the council chamber, where the conjurer and Hadgi were employed in ministering to those who had fainted.
The patients having retrieved64 the use of their faculties65, Cadwallader, assuming a double portion of severity in his aspect, asked if they were not ashamed of their former incredulity; declaring, that he was ready to give them more convincing proofs of his art upon the spot, and would immediately recall three generations of their progenitors66 from the dead, if they were disposed to relish67 such company. Then turning to one of them, whose grandfather had been hanged, “Are you,” said he, “ambitious of seeing the first remarkable personage of your family? Say the word and he shall appear.”
This youth, who had been the most insolent68 and obstreperous69 in the whole society, and was now depressed70 with the same proportion of fear, alarmed at the proposal, assured the magician he had no curiosity of that sort remaining; and that what he had already seen would, he hoped, have a good effect upon his future life and conversation. Every one of these heroes made an acknowledgment and profession of the same kind, some of which were attended with tears; and Hadgi having provided chairs for the whole company, they departed exceedingly crest-fallen. Two of the number actually sickened with the agitation71 they had undergone, while our hero and his associate made themselves merry with the success of their enterprise.
But this scheme of fortune-telling did not engross72 his whole attention; he still continued to maintain his appearance in the beau monde; and, as his expense far exceeded his income, strove to contract intimacies73 with people of interest and power; he showed himself regularly at court, paid his respects to them in all places of public diversion, and frequently entered into their parties, either of pleasure or cards. In the course of this cultivation74, he happened one evening, at a certain chocolate-house, to overlook a match of piquet, in which he perceived a couple of sharpers making a prey75 of a young nobleman, who had neither temper nor skill sufficient to cope with such antagonists76.
Our hero, being a professed enemy to all knights77 of industry, could not bear to see them cheat in public with such insolent audacity78. Under pretence27 of communicating some business of importance, he begged the favour of speaking to the young gentleman in another corner of the room, and in a friendly manner cautioned him against his opponents. This hot-headed representative, far from thinking or owning himself obliged to Pickle for his good counsel, looked upon his advice as an insult upon his understanding; and replied, with an air of ferocious79 displeasure, that he knew how to take care of his own concerns, and would not suffer either him or them to bubble him out of a shilling.
Peregrine. offended at the association, as well as at the ingratitude80 and folly82 of this conceited83 coxcomb84, expressed his resentment85, by telling him, that he expected at least an acknowledgment for his candid86 intention; but he found his intellects too much warped87 by his vanity to perceive his own want of capacity and experience. Inflamed88 by this reproof89, the young nobleman challenged him to play for five hundred pounds, with many opprobrious90, or at least contemptuous terms of defiance91, which provoked our hero to accept the proposal. After the other had disengaged himself from the old rooks, who were extremely mortified92 at the interruption, the two young champions sat down, and fortune acting93 with uncommon94 impartiality95, Pickle, by the superiority of his talents, in two hours won to the amount of as many thousand pounds, for which he was obliged to take his antagonist’s note, the sharpers having previously96 secured his ready money.
Frantic97 with his loss, the rash young man would have continued the game, and doubled stakes every time; so that Peregrine might have increased his acquisition to ten times the sum he had gained; but he thought he had already sufficiently98 chastised99 the presumption of the challenger, and was unwilling100 to empower fortune to ravish from him the fruits of his success; he therefore declined my lord’s proposal, unless he would play for ready money; and his lordship having in vain tried his credit among the company, our adventurer withdrew, leaving him in an ecstasy101 of rage and disappointment.
As the insolence of his behaviour had increased with his ill-luck, and he had given vent3 to divers expressions which Peregrine took amiss, our young gentleman resolved to augment102 his punishment, by teasing him with demands which could not, he knew, be immediately satisfied; and next day sent Pipes to his father’s house with the note, which was drawn103 payable104 upon demand. The debtor105, who had gone to bed half-distracted with his misfortune, finding himself waked with such a disagreeable dun, lost all patience, cursed Pickle, threatened his messenger, blasphemed with horrible execrations, and made such a noise as reached the ears of his father, who, ordering his son to be called into his presence, examined him about the cause of that uproar106, which had disturbed the whole family. The young gentleman, after having essayed to amuse him with sundry107 equivocations, which served only to increase his suspicion and desire of knowing the truth, acknowledged that he had lost some money overnight at cards, to a gamester who had been so impertinent as to send a message, demanding it that morning, though he had told the fellow that it would not suit him to pay him immediately. The father, who was a man of honour, reproached him with great severity for his profligate108 behaviour in general, and this scandalous debt in particular, which he believed to be some trifle; then giving him a bank-note for five hundred pounds, commanded him to go and discharge it without loss of time. This well-principled heir took the money; but, instead of waiting upon his creditor109, he forthwith repaired to the gaming-house, in hopes of retrieving110 his loss; and, before he rose from the table, saw his note mortgaged for seven-eighths of its value.
Meanwhile, Pickle, incensed111 at the treatment which his servant had received, and informed of his lordship’s second loss, which aggravated112 his resentment, determined to preserve no medium; and, taking out a writ46 the same day, put it immediately in execution upon the body of his debtor, just as he stepped into his chair at the door of White’s chocolate-house. The prisoner, being naturally fierce and haughty113, attempted to draw upon the bailiffs, who disarmed114 him in a twinkling; and this effort served only to heighten his disgrace; which was witnessed by a thousand people, most of whom laughed very heartily115 at the adventure of a lord’s being arrested.
Such a public transaction could not long escape the knowledge of his father, who that very day had the satisfaction to hear that his son was in a spunging-house. In consequence of this information, he sent his steward116 to learn the particulars of the arrest, and was equally offended, surprised, and concerned, when he understood the nature of the debt, which he imagined his son had already discharged. Unwilling to pay such a considerable sum for a spendthrift, whom he had but too much indulged, and who in less than one week might involve himself in such another difficulty, the old gentleman wrote a letter to Peregrine, representing what a hardship it would be upon him to forfeit117 such sums by the indiscretion of a son, whose engagements he was not bound to fulfil, and desiring some mitigation in his demand, as it was not a debt contracted for value received, but incurred118 without subjecting him to the least damage or inconvenience.
Our adventurer no sooner received this letter, than he went in person to wait upon the author, to whom he, in a candid manner, related the particular circumstances of the match, together with the ingratitude and audacity of his son, which he owned had stimulated119 him to such measures as he otherwise would have scorned to take. The nobleman acknowledged that the revenge was hardly adequate to the provocation120, and condemned121 the conduct of his son with such justice and integrity, as disarmed Peregrine of his resentment, and disposed him to give an undoubted proof of his own disinterestedness122, which he immediately exhibited, by producing the note, and tearing it to pieces, after having assured his lordship that the writ should be withdrawn123, and the prisoner discharged before night.
The earl, who perfectly124 well understood the value of money, and was no stranger to the characters of mankind, stood amazed at the sacrifice, which Pickle protested was offered by his esteem125 for his lordship; and, after having complimented him upon his generosity126, in a very uncommon strain of encomium127, begged the favour of his acquaintance, and insisted upon his dining with him next day. The youth, proud of having met with such an opportunity to distinguish himself, in less than an hour performed every article of his promise; and in the morning was visited by the debtor, who came, by the express order of his father, to thank him for the obligation under which he was laid, and to ask pardon for the offence he had given.
This condescension128 was very glorious for our hero, who graciously received his submission129, and accompanied him to dinner, where he was caressed130 by the old earl with marks of particular affection and esteem. Nor was his gratitude81 confined to exterior131 civility; he offered him the use of his interest at court, which was very powerful, and repeated his desire of serving him so pressingly, that Peregrine thought he could not dispense132 with the opportunity of assisting his absent friend Godfrey, in whose behalf he begged the influence of his lordship.
The earl, pleased with this request, which was another proof of the young gentleman’s benevolence133, said, he would not fail to pay the utmost regard to his recommendation; and in six weeks a captain’s commission was actually signed for the brother of Emilia, who was very agreeably surprised at the intimation he received from the War Office, though he was utterly134 ignorant of the canal through which he obtained that promotion135.
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