 was disposed to do every thing in his power for her satisfaction.
These representations, mingled with some little practical expressions of
tenderness, had weight with the duenna, who, upon recollection, comprehended the
whole affair, and thought it would be her interest to bring matters to an
accommodation. She therefore admitted the apologies of her bedfellow, provided
he would promise to atone by marriage for the injury she had sustained; and in
this particular he set her heart at ease by repeated vows, which he uttered with
surprising volubility, though without any intention to perform the least tittle
of their contents.
    Peregrine, who had been alarmed by her exclamation, and run to the door with
a view of interposing, according to the emergency of the case, over-hearing the
affair thus compromised, returned to his mistress, who was highly entertained
with an account of what had passed, foreseeing, that for the future she should
be under no difficulty or restriction from the severity of her guard.
 

                                  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
 
There was another person, however, still ungained; and that was no other than
her footman, whose secrecy our hero attempted to secure in the morning by an
handsome present, which he received with many professions of gratitude and
devotion to his service; yet this complaisance was nothing but a cloak used to
disguise the design he harboured of making his master acquainted with the whole
transaction. Indeed this lacquey had been hired, not only as a spy upon his
mistress, but also as a check on the conduct of the governante, with promise of
ample reward, if ever he should discover any sinister or suspicious practices in
the course of their behaviour: and as for the footman whom they had brought from
England, he was retained in attendance upon the person of his master, whose
confidence he had lost, by advising him to gentle methods of reclaiming his
lady, when her irregularities had subjected her to his wrath.
    The Flemish valet, in consequence of the office he had undertaken, wrote to
Hornbeck by the first post, giving an exact detail of the adventure at
Versailles, with such a description of the pretended brother, as left the
husband no room to think he could be any other person than his first
dishonourer; and exasperated him to such a degree, that he resolved to lay an
ambush for this invader, and at once disqualify him from disturbing his repose,
by maintaining further
