 the course of his ministration;
but that reflection, though it in some measure alleviated, could not wholly
prevent the mortification he must suffer in parting with an affectionate
adherent, who was by this time become as necessary to him as one of his own
members, and who was so accustomed to live under his command and protection,
that he did not believe the fellow could reconcile himself to any other way of
life.
    Crabtree, in order to make himself easy on that score, offered to adopt him
in the room of his own valet, whom he would dismiss; though he observed, that
Pipes had been quite spoiled in our hero's service. But Peregrine did not chuse
to lay his friend under that inconvenience, knowing that his present lacquey
understood and complied with all the peculiarities of his humour, which Pipes
would never be able to study or regard; and therefore determined to send him
back to his ship-mate Hatchway, with whom he had spent the fore-part of his
life.
    These points being adjusted, the two friends adjourned to the coffee-house,
with a view of inquiring into the character of the clergyman, to whose
beneficence our adventurer was so much indebted; and they learned he was a
person who had incurred the displeasure of the bishop in whose diocese he was
settled, and, being unequal in power to his antagonist, had been driven to the
Fleet, in consequence of his obstinate opposition; tho' he still found means to
enjoy a pretty considerable income, by certain irregular practices in the way of
his function, which income was chiefly consumed in acts of humanity to his
fellow-creatures in distress.
    His eulogium was scarce finished, when he entered the room, according to
appointment with Peregrine, who ordering wine and something for supper to be
carried to his apartment, the triumvirate went thither; and Cadwallader taking
his leave for the night, the two fellow-prisoners passed the evening very
sociably, our hero being entertained by his new companion with the private
history of the place, some particulars of which were extremely curious. He told
him, that the person who attended them at supper, bowing with the most abject
servility, and worshipping them, every time he opened his mouth, with the
epithets of your Lordship and your Honour, had, a few years before, been
actually a captain in the guards; who, after having run his career in the great
world, had threaded every station in their community, from that of a buck of the
first order, who swaggers about the Fleet in a laced coat, with a footman and
whore,
