MASTER.--THE CORPORAL OPENS HIMSELF TO THE YOUNG TRAVELLER.--
HIS OPINIONS ON LOVE;--ON THE WORLD;--ON THE PLEASURE AND
RESPECTABILITY OF CHEATING;--ON LADIES--AND A PARTICULAR CLASS
OF LADIES;--ON AUTHORS;--ON THE VALUE OF WORDS;--ON FIGHTING;
--WITH SUNDRY OTHER MATTERS OF EQUAL DELECTATION AND
IMPROVEMENT.--AN UNEXPECTED EVENT.

Quale per incertam Lunam sub luce maligna
Est iter.
--Virgil.

[Even as a journey by the upropitious light
of the uncertain moon.]

The road prescribed to our travellers by the change in their destination
led them back over a considerable portion of the ground they had already
traversed, and since the Corporal took care that they should remain some
hours in the place where they dined, night fell upon them as they found
themselves in the midst of the same long and dreary stage in which they
had encountered Sir Peter Hales and the two suspected highwaymen.

Walter's mind was full of the project on which he was bent. The reader
can fully comprehend how vivid must have been his emotions at thus
chancing on what might prove a clue to the mystery that hung over his
father's fate; and sanguinely did he now indulge those intense
meditations with which the imaginative minds of the young always brood
over every more favourite idea, until they exalt the hope into a passion.
Every thing connected with this strange and roving parent, had possessed
for the breast of his son, not only an anxious, but so to speak,
indulgent interest. The judgment of a young man is always inclined to