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Pickle; and an overture accordingly made to her father, who, being overjoyed at the proposal, gave his consent without hesitation, and even recommended the immediate execution of the project with such eagerness, as seemed to indicate either a suspicion of Mr. Pickle's constancy, or a diffidence of his own daughter's complexion, which perhaps he thought too sanguine to keep much longer cool.
The lieutenant, fraught with this piece of intelligence, watched for an opportunity; and as soon as he perceived the commodore's features a little unbended from that ferocious contraction they had retained so long, ventured to inform him that Pickle's sister lay at the point of death, and that she had left him a thousand pounds in her will.
To understand Pickle's career, the reluctant reader must endure a certain amount of actual history in minute details of date and place.
The Stuart Papers, we have said, contain no hints as to the Elibank plot of November 1752, unless Goring's scruples were aroused by it. James's Palace, and seize the King. Pickle's letters to his English employers show that the design was abandoned, much to his chagrin. As Glengarry, he expresses the same regret in a letter to Edgar. We now offer Pickle's letters.
Yet the breach between James and his little Court, on one side, and Prince Charles on the other, was then so absolute that the Prince was dining with the spy, chatting with him at the opera-ball, and presenting him with a gold snuff-box, at about the very time when Pickle's treachery was known in Rome. Afterwards, the knowledge of his infamy came too late, if it came at all.
Peregrine reconciles himself to the Lieutenant, and renews his Connection with Society Divers Plans are projected in his behalf, and he has occasion to exhibit a remarkable Proof of Self-denial. The captain, with reluctance, yielded the preference in this particular to Jack, who was immediately invited to a conference, by a note subscribed with Pickle's own hand.
She was small and of an extreme tenuity, which became more bewildering as she advanced through her meal, especially at supper, which she made of a long cucumber pickle, a Frankfort sausage of twice the pickle's length, and a towering goblet of beer; in her lap she held a shivering little hound; she was in the decorous keeping of an elderly maid, and had every effect of being a gracious Fraulein.
Pickle's ears were saluted with such a strange noise, as even discomposed the muscles of his face, which gave immediate indications of alarm.
Jacobite hopes Blighted by the conduct of Charles His seclusion His health is affected His fierce impatience Miss Walkinshaw Letter from young Edgar The Prince easily tracked Fears of his English correspondents Remonstrances of Goring The English demand Miss Walkinshaw's dismissal Danger of discarding Dumont Goring fears the Bastille Cruelty of dismissing Catholic servants Charles's lack of generosity Has relieved no poor adherents Will offend both Protestants and Catholics Opinion of a Protestant Toleration desired Goring asks leave to resign Charles's answer Goring's advice Charles's reply Needs money Proceedings of Pickle- -In London Called to France To see the Earl Marischal Charles detected at Liege Verbally dismisses Goring Pickle's letter to England 'Best metal buttons' Goring to the Prince The Prince's reply Last letter from Goring His ill-treatment His danger in Paris His death in Prussia The Earl Marischal abandons the Prince His distress 'The poison.
In Pickle he had such a character ready made to his hand, but, in the time of Scott, it would have been dangerous, as it is still disagreeable, to unveil this old mystery of iniquity. A friend of Sir Walter's, a man very ready with the pistol, the last, as was commonly said, of the Highland chiefs, was of the name and blood of Pickle, and would have taken up Pickle's feud.
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