 success, and found their two
centinels on their posts, whom they amused with a feigned story of having been
so much moved by the tears and supplications of the criminal, that they desisted
from their scheme of exposing her, and only inflicted the punishment of
flagellation, which, they said, she had undergone.
    Pipes was not well pleased when he found himself disappointed in the
expectation of seeing her in the attitude to which she had been in council
decreed; and Hatchway, though he pretended to acquiesce in their account, saw
through the pretence, and ascribed their long stay to the true motive.
 

                                  Chapter XXXV

Peregrine has an Interview with his Sister Julia. Is interrupted and attacked by
his Mother, and relieved by his Friend Gauntlet. Julia is settled in the
Garison, and Trunnion affronted by his old Friend Gamaliel Pickle
 
Two days after this atchievement was so happily accomplished, our hero received
an intimation from his sister, that she should be overjoyed to meet him next
day, at five o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of her nurse, who lived in a
cottage hard by her father's habitation, she being debarred from all opportunity
of seeing him in any other place by the severity of her mother, who suspected
her inclination.
    He accordingly obeyed the summons, and went at the time appointed to the
place of rendezvous, where he met this affectionate young lady, who when he
entered the room, ran towards him with all the eagerness of transport; flung her
arms about his neck, and shed a flood of tears in his bosom before she could
utter one word, except a repetition of »My dear, dear brother!« He embraced her
with all the piety of fraternal tenderness, wept over her in his turn, assured
her that this was one of the happiest moments of his life, and kindly thanked
her for having resisted the example, and disobeyed the injunctions of his
mother's unnatural aversion.
    He was ravished to find by her conversation, that she possessed a great
share of sensibility and prudent reflexion; for she lamented the infatuation of
her parents with the most filial regret, and expressed such abhorrence and
concern at the villainous disposition of her younger brother, as a humane sister
may be supposed to have entertained. He made her acquainted with all the
circumstances of his own fortune, and as he supposed she spent her time very
disagreeably at home, among characters which must be shockingly interesting,
professed a desire of moving her into some other sphere, where she could live
with more tranquillity and satisfaction.
    She objected to this proposal as an expedient that would infallibly
