he saw the lovely Aurelia on the brink of being precipitated among rocks,
where her delicate limbs must be mangled and tore asunder; when he
perceived, that, before he could ride round by the gate, the tragedy
would be finished. The fence was so thick and high, flanked with a broad
ditch on the outside, that he could not hope to clear it, although he was
mounted on Scipio, bred out of Miss Cowslip, the sire Muley, and his
grandsire the famous Arabian Mustapha.--Scipio was bred by my father, who
would not have taken a hundred guineas for him, from any other person but
the young squire--indeed, I have heard my poor father say"----

By this time Ferret's impatience was become so outrageous, that he
exclaimed in a furious tone, "D--n your father, and his horse, and his
colt into the bargain!"

Tom made no reply; but began to strip with great expedition. Captain
Crowe was so choked with passion that he could utter nothing but
disjointed sentences. He rose from his seat, brandished his horsewhip,
and, seizing his nephew by the collar, cried, "Odd's heartlikins! sirrah,
I have a good mind--Devil fire your running tackle, you landlubber!--
can't you steer without all this tacking hither and thither, and the Lord
knows whither?--'Noint my block! I'd give thee a rope's end for thy
supper if it wan't"----

Dolly had conceived a sneaking kindness for the young lawyer, and
thinking him in danger of being roughly handled, flew to his relief. She
twisted her hand in Crowe's neckcloth without ceremony, crying, "Sha't
then, I tell thee, old codger--who kears a vig vor thy voolish tantrums?"

While Crowe looked black in the face, and ran the risk of strangulation
under the gripe of this Amazon, Mr. Clarke having disengaged himself of