ISBN: 9780217999496

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1784 edition. Excerpt: ...like a charm upon ail present. The doctor was confounded, the governcr dismayed, the Levite''s rteeth chattered, the pointer was astonished at the.general consusion, the cause of which he could not comprehend; and Pickle himself, not a little alarmed, was obliged to use all his interest and assiduity in appeasing this son of the church, who at.length, in consideration of the friendship he professed fessed for the young gentleman, consented to forgive what had passed, but absolutely resused to sit in contact with such a prosane wretch, whom he looked upon as a fiend of darkness, sent by the enemy of mankind to poison the minds of weak people; so that, after having crossed himself, and muttered certain exorcilms, he insisted upon the doctor''s changing places with the Jew, who approached the offended ecclesiastic in an agony of fear. Matters being thus compromised, the conversation flowed in a more general channel; and without the intervention of anv other accident., or bone of contention, the carriage arrived at the city of Ghent about seven in the evening. Supper being bespoke for the whole company, our adventurer and his friends went out to take a superficial view of the place, leaving his new mistress to the pious exhortations of her confessor, whom (as we have already observed) he had secured in his interest. This zealous mediator spoke so warmly in his commendation, and interested her conscience so much in the affair, that she could not resuse her helping hand to the great work of his conversion and promised to grant the interview he desired. This agreeable piece of intelligence, which the Capuchin communicated to Peregrine at his return, elevated his spirits to such a degree, that he shone at supper with uncommon brilliance, in... Tobias George Smollett, Books, History, The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle; In Which Are Included, Memoirs Of A Lady Of Quality Volume 2 Books>History, General Books LLC<

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2012, ISBN: 9780217999496

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