THE CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
He embarks for France; is overtaken by a storm; is surprised with the appearance of Pipes; lands at Calais, and has an affair with the officers of the custom-house.
CHAPTER XL.
He makes a fruitless attempt in gallantry; departs for Boulogne, where he spends the evening with certain English exiles.
CHAPTER XLI.
Proceeds for the capital. Takes up his lodging at Bernay, where he is overtaken by Mr. Hornbeck, whose head he longs to fortify.
CHAPTER XLII.
They set out in company, breakfast at Abbe Ville, dine at Amiens, and about eleven o’clock arrive at Chantilly, where Peregrine executes a plan which he had concerted upon Hornbeck.
CHAPTER XLIII.
He is involved in an adventure at Paris, and taken prisoner by the city-guard. Becomes acquainted with a French nobleman, who introduces him into the beau monde.
CHAPTER XLIV.
Acquires a distinct idea of the French government; quarrels with a mousquetaire, whom he afterwards fights and vanquishes, after having punished him for interfering in his amorous recreations.
CHAPTER XLV.
Mr. Jolter threatens to leave him on account of his misconduct, which he promises to rectify; but his resolution is defeated by the impetuosity of his passions. He meets accidentally with Mrs. Hornbeck, who elopes with him from her husband, but is restored by the interposition of the British embassador.
CHAPTER XLVI.
Peregrine resolves to return to England, is diverted with the odd characters of two of his countrymen, with whom he contracts an acquaintance in the apartments of the Palais Royal.
CHAPTER XLVII.
He introduces his new friends to Mr. Jolter, with whom the doctor enters into a dispute upon government, which had well nigh terminated in open war.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
The doctor prepares an entertainment in the manner of the ancients, which is attended with divers ridiculous circumstances.
CHAPTER XLIX.
The Italian marquis and German baron are disgraced; the painter is persuaded to accompany Pickle to a masquerade in woman’s apparel; is engaged in a troublesome adventure, and with his companion conveyed to the Bastile.
CHAPTER L.
By the fidelity of Pipes, Jolter is informed of his pupil’s fate. Confers with the physician. Applies to the Embassador, who with great difficulty obtains the discharge of the prisoners, on certain conditions.
CHAPTER LI.
Peregrine makes himself merry at the expence of the painter, who curses his landlady, and breaks with the doctor.
CHAPTER LII.
Pallet conceives an hearty contempt for his fellow-traveller, and attaches himself to Pickle, who, nevertheless, persecutes him with his mischievous talent, upon the road to Flanders.
CHAPTER LIII.
Nor is the physician sacred from his ridicule. They reach Arras, where our adventurer engages in play with two French officers, who next morning give the landlord an interesting proof of their importance.
CHAPTER LIV.
Peregrine moralizes upon their behaviour, which is condemned by the doctor, and defended by the governor. They arrive in safety at Lisle, dine at an ordinary, visit the citadel. The physician quarrels with a North-Briton, who is put in arrest.
CHAPTER LV.
Pickle engages with a knight of Malta, in a conversation upon the English stage, which is followed by a dissertation on the theatres of the ancients, by the doctor.
CHAPTER LVI.
An adventure happens to Pipes, in consequence of which he is dismissed from Peregrine ’s service. The whole company set out for Ghent in the Diligence. Our hero is captivated by a lady in that carriage; interests her spiritual director in his behalf.
CHAPTER LVII.
He makes some progress in her affections; is interrupted by a dispute between Jolter and a Jew; appeases the wrath of the Capuchin, who procures for him an interview with his fair enslaver, in which he finds himself deceived.
CHAPTER LVIII.
He makes another effort towards the accomplishment of his wish, which is postponed by a strange accident.
CHAPTER LIX.
They depart from Ghent. Our hero engages in a political dispute with his mistress, whom he offends, and pacifies with submission. He practises an expedient to detain the carriage at Alost, and confirms the priest in his interest.
CHAPTER LX.
The French coquet entraps the heart of the Jew, against whom Pallet enters into a conspiracy; by which Peregrine is again disappointed, and the Hebrew’s incontinence exposed.
CHAPTER LXI.
Pallet, endeavouring to unravel the mystery of the treatment he had received, falls out of the frying pan into the fire.
CHAPTER LXII.
Peregrine, almost distracted with his disappointments, conjures the fair Fleming to permit his visits at Brussels. She withdraws from his pursuit.
CHAPTER LXIII.
Peregrine meets with Mrs. Hornbeck, and is consoled for his loss. His valet de chambre is embroiled with her duenna, whom, however, he finds means to appease.
CHAPTER LXIV.
Hornbeck is informed of his wife’s adventure with Peregrine, for whom he prepares a stratagem, which is rendered ineffectual by the information of Pipes. The husband is ducked for his intention, and our hero apprehended by the patrole.
CHAPTER LXV.
Peregrine is released. Jolter confounded at his mysterious conduct. A contest happens between the poet and painter, who are reconciled by the mediation of their fellow travellers.
CHAPTER LXVI.
Peregrine renews his inquiries about his lost Amanda, in the course of which he is engaged in an intrigue with a nun, which produces strange consequences.
CHAPTER LXVII.
The travellers depart for Antwerp, at which place the painter gives a loose to his enthusiasm.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
Peregrine artfully foments a quarrel between Pallet and the physician, who fight a duel on the ramparts.
CHAPTER LXIX.
The doctor exults in his victory. They set out for Rotterdam, where they are entertained by two Dutch gentlemen in a yacht, which is overturned in the Maes, to the manifest hazard of the painter’s life. They spend the evening with their entertainers, and next day visit a cabinet of curiosities.
CHAPTER LXX.
They proceed to the Hague; from whence they depart for Amsterdam, where they see a Dutch tragedy. Visit a musick-house, in which Peregrine quarrels with the captain of a man of war. They pass through Haarlem, in their way to Leyden. Return to Rotterdam, where the company separates, and our hero, with his attendants, arrives in safety at Harwich.
CHAPTER LXXI.
Peregrine delivers his letters of recommendation at London, and returns to the garison, to the unspeakable joy of the commodore and his whole family.
CHAPTER LXXII.
Sees his sister happily married. Visits Emilia, who receives him according to his deserts.
CHAPTER LXXIII.
He attends his uncle with great affection, during a fit of illness. Sets out again for London; meets with his friend Godfrey, who is prevailed upon to accompany him to Bath; on the road to which place, they chance to dine with a person, who entertains them with a curious account of a certain company of adventurers.
CHAPTER LXXIV.
Godfrey executes a scheme at Bath, by which a whole company of sharpers is ruined.
CHAPTER LXXV.
The two friends eclipse all their competitors in gallantry, and practise a pleasant project of revenge upon the physicians of the place.
CHAPTER LXXVI.
They distress the housekeepers of Bath, by another mischievous contrivance. Peregrine humbles a noted hector, and meets with a strange character at the house of a certain lady.
CHAPTER LXXVII.
He cultivates an acquaintance with the Misanthrope, who favours him with a short sketch of his own history.
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
A treaty is concluded betwixt Cadwallader and our hero; in consequence of which, divers pleasant adventures occur, until the young gentleman is summoned to the garison, on a very interesting occasion.