 discharge of
what are called the duties of religion, which she performed with the most
rancorous severity, setting on foot a persecution in her own family, that made
the house too hot for all the menial servants, even ruffled the almost
invincible indifference of Tom Pipes, harrassed the commodore himself out of all
patience, and spared no individual but lieutenant Hatchway, whom she never
ventured to disoblige.
 

                                   Chapter XI

Mrs. Trunnion erects a Tyranny in the Garrison, while her Husband conceives an
Affection for his Nephew Perry, who manifests a Peculiarity of Disposition even
in his tender Years
 
Having exercised herself three months in such pious amusements, she appeared
again in the world; but her misfortune had made such an impression on her mind,
that she could not bear the sight of a child, and trembled whenever the
conversation happened to turn upon a christening. Her temper, which was
naturally none of the sweetest, seemed to have imbibed a double proportion of
souring from her disappointment; of consequence her company was not much
coveted, and she found very few people disposed to treat her with those marks of
consideration which she looked upon as her due. This neglect detached her from
the society of an unmannerly world; she concentred the energy of all her talents
in the government of her own house, which groaned accordingly under her
arbitrary sway, and in the brandy-bottle found ample consolation for all the
affliction she had undergone.
    As for the commodore, he in a little time weathered his disgrace, after
having sustained many severe jokes from the lieutenant; and now his chief aim
being to be absent from his own house as much as possible, he frequented the
publick-house more than ever, more assiduously cultivated the friendship of his
brother-in-law Mr. Pickle, and in the course of their intimacy conceived an
affection for his nephew Perry, which did not end but with his life. Indeed it
must be owned that Trunnion was not naturally deficient in the social passions
of the soul, which, tho' they were strangely warped, disguised and overborne by
the circumstances of his boisterous life and education, did not fail to manifest
themselves occasionally thro' the whole course of his behaviour.
    As all his hopes of propagating his own name had perished, and his relations
lay under the interdiction of his hate, it is no wonder that thro' the
familiarity and friendly intercourse subsisting between him and Mr. Gamaliel, he
contracted a liking for the boy, who by this time entered the third year of his
age, and was indeed a very handsome, healthy and promising child; and what
seemed to ingratiate him
