 in such a manner, as
he hoped would deter him from putting such an extravagant plan in execution.
    This expedient, however, far from answering the end proposed, had a quite
contrary effect, and furnished Hatchway with an argument against his own
unwillingness to quit such a disagreeable place. And, in all probability, Jack
would have been more explicit, with regard to the scheme he had proposed, if the
conversation had not been interrupted by the arrival of Cadwallader, who never
failed in the performance of his diurnal visit. Hatchway, conjecturing that this
stranger might have some private business with his friend, quitted the
apartment, on pretence of taking a turn: and meeting Pipes at the door, desired
his company to the Bear, by which name the open space is distinguished; where,
during a course of perambulation, these two companions held a council upon
Pickle: in consequence of which it was determined, since he obstinately
persisted to refuse their assistance, that they should take lodgings in his
neighbourhood, with a view of being at hand to minister unto his occasions, in
spite of his false delicacy, according to the emergency of his affairs.
    This resolution being taken, they consulted the bar-keeper of the
coffee-house about lodging, and she directed them to the warden; to whom the
lieutenant, in his great wisdom, represented himself as a kinsman to Peregrine,
who, rather than leave that young gentleman by himself to the unavoidable
discomforts of a prison, was inclined to keep him company, 'till such time as
his affairs could be put in order. This measure he the more anxiously desired to
take, because the prisoner was sometimes subject to a disordered imagination,
upon which occasion he stood in need of extraordinary attendance; and therefore
he (the lieutenant) in-treated the warden to accommodate him with a lodging for
himself and his servant, for which he was ready to make any reasonable
acknowledgment. The warden, who was a sensible and humane man, could not help
applauding his resolution; and several rooms being at that time unoccupied, he
put him immediately in possession of a couple, which were forthwith prepared for
his reception.
    This affair being settled to his satisfaction, he dispatched Pipes for his
portmanteau; and returning to the coffee-house, found Peregrine, with whom he
spent the remaining part of the evening. Our hero, taking it for granted that he
proposed to set out for the garison next day, wrote a memorandum of some books
which he had left in that habitation, and which he now desired Jack to send up
to town by the waggon
