 means submit.
    It was resolved to set out the next Morning; when a Difficulty arose
concerning the Baggage, for the Portmanteau of Mr. Jones was too large to be
carried without a Horse.
    »If I may presume to give my Advice,« says Partridge, »this Portmanteau,
with every Thing in it, except a few Shirts, should be left behind. Those I
shall be easily able to carry for you, and the rest of your Clothes will remain
very safely locked up in my House.«
    This Method was no sooner proposed than agreed when the Barber departed, in
order to prepare every Thing for his intended Expedition.
 

                                  Chapter VII

 Containing better Reasons than any which have yet appeared for the Conduct of
  Partridge; an Apology for the Weakness of Jones; and some farther Anecdotes
                            concerning my Landlady.
 
Though Partridge was one of the most superstitious of Men, he would hardly,
perhaps, have desired to accompany Jones on his Expedition merely from the Omens
of the Jointstool, and white Mare, if his Prospect had been no better than to
have shared the Plunder gained in the Field of Battle. In Fact, when Partridge
came to ruminate on the Relation he had heard from Jones, he could not reconcile
to himself, that Mr. Allworthy should turn his Son (for so he most firmly
believed him to be) out of Doors, for any Reason which he had heard assigned. He
concluded therefore, that the whole was a Fiction, and that Jones, of whom he
had often from his Correspondents heard the wildest Character, had in reality
run away from his Father. It came into his Head, therefore, that if he could
prevail with the young Gentleman to return back to his Father, he should by that
Means render a Service to Allworthy, which would obliterate all his former
Anger; nay, indeed he conceived that very Anger was counterfeited, and that
Allworthy had sacrificed him to his own Reputation. And this Suspicion, indeed,
he well accounted for, from the tender Behaviour of that excellent Man to the
Foundling Child; from his great Severity to Partridge, who knowing himself to be
innocent, could not conceive that any other should think him guilty; lastly,
from the Allowance which he had privately received long after the Annuity had
been publickly taken from him; and which he looked upon as a kind of
Smart-money, or rather by way of Atonement for Injustice: For it is very
uncommon, I believe, for Men to ascribe the Benefactions they receive to pure
Charity, when they can possibly impute them to any other Motive. If he could by
