 consideration, induced the young gentleman to
disclose the whole of his proceedings to the Embassador, and promise to be
governed by his direction, provided the lady should not suffer for the step she
had taken, but be received by her husband with due reverence and respect. These
stipulations being agreed to, he undertook to produce her in eight and forty
hours; and taking coach immediately, drove to the place of her residence, where
he spent a whole day and a night in convincing her of the impossibility of their
enjoying each other in that manner; and returning to Paris, delivered her into
the hands of the Embassador, who having assured her, that she might depend upon
his friendship and protection, in case she should find herself aggrieved by the
jealous temper of Mr. Hornbeck, restored her to her legitimate lord, whom he
counselled to exempt her from that restraint which, in all probability, had been
the cause of her elopement, and endeavour to conciliate her affection by tender
and respectful usage.
    The husband behaved with great humility and compliance, protesting that his
chief study should be to contrive parties for her pleasure and satisfaction. But
no sooner did he regain possession of his stray-sheep, than he locked her up
more closely than ever; and after having revolved various schemes for her
reformation, determined to board her in a convent, under the inspection of a
prudent abbess, who should superintend her morals, and recal her to the paths of
virtue, which she had forsaken. With this view he consulted an English priest of
his acquaintance, who advised him to settle her in a monastery at Lisle, that
she might be as far as possible from the machinations of her lover; and gave him
a letter of recommendation to the superior of a certain convent in that place,
for which Mr. Hornbeck set out in a few days with his troublesome charge.
 

                                  Chapter XLVI

Peregrine resolves to return to England, is diverted with the odd Characters of
Two of his Countrymen, with whom he contracts an Acquaintance in the Apartments
of the Palais Royal
 
In the mean time, our hero received a letter from his aunt, importing that the
commodore was in a very declining way, and longed much to see him at the
garison; and at the same time he heard from his sister, who gave him to
understand that the young gentleman who had for some time made his addresses to
her, was become very pressing in his solicitations; so that she wanted to know
in what manner she should answer his repeated intreaties. These two
considerations determined the young gentleman to return to his native country, a
resolution that
