 a little chagrined, when he understood that he was so suddenly
deprived of this almost untasted morsel; and Jolter could not conceive the
meaning of their abrupt and uncivil disappearance, which after many profound
conjectures, he accounted for, by supposing that Hornbeck was some sharper who
had run away with an heiress, whom he found it necessary to conceal from the
inquiry of her friends.
    The pupil, who was well assured of the true motive, allowed his governor to
enjoy the triumph of his own penetration, and consoled himself with the hope of
seeing his Dulcinea again at some of the public places in Paris, which he
proposed to frequent. Thus comforted, he visited the magnificent stables and
palace of Chantilly, and immediately after dinner set out for Paris, where they
arrived in the evening, and hired apartments at an hotel in the Fauxbourg St.
Germaine, not far from the playhouse.
 

                                 Chapter XLIII

He is involved in an Adventure at Paris, and taken Prisoner by the City-guard.
Becomes acquainted with a French Nobleman, who introduces him into the beau
monde
 
They were no sooner settled in these lodgings, than our hero wrote to his uncle
an account of their safe arrival, and sent another letter to his friend
Gauntlet, with a very tender billet inclosed for his dear Emilia, to whom he
repeated all his former vows of constancy and love.
    The next care that ingrossed him was that of bespeaking several suits of
cloaths suitable to the French mode, and in the mean time he never appeared
abroad, except in the English coffee-house, where he soon became acquainted with
some of his own countrymen, who were at Paris on the same footing with himself.
The third evening after his journey, he was engaged in a party of those young
sparks, at the house of a noted Traiteur, whose wife was remarkably handsome,
and otherwise extremely well qualified for alluring customers to her house. To
this lady our young gentleman was introduced as a stranger fresh from England;
and he was charmed with her personal accomplishments, as well as with the
freedom and gaiety of her conversation: having sat with them about an hour, she
got up in order to retire, but being earnestly intreated to favour them with her
company at supper, she promised to gratify their desire, and told them, without
any ceremony or circumlocution, that she would only step into the next room to
make water, and return in an instant. This frank declaration sounded so oddly in
the ears of Peregrine, that he concluded he might, without offence, take any
sort of liberty with a woman who could thus behave so
