CHAP. XIII.
Which concludes the firſt Book, with an Inſtance of Ingratitude, which we hope will appear unnatural.
The Reader, from what hath been ſaid, may imagine that the Reconciliation (if indeed it could be ſo called) was only Matter of Form; we ſhall therefore paſs it over, and haſten to what muſt ſurely be thought Matter of Subſtance.
The Doctor had acquainted his Brother with what had paſt between Mr. Allworthy and him; and added with a Smile, ‘I promiſe you, I paid you off; nay, I abſolutely deſired the good Gentleman not to forgive you: For you know, after he had made a Declaration in your Favour, I might, with Safety, venture on ſuch a Requeſt with a Perſon of his Temper; and I was willing, as well for, your Sake as for my own, to prevent the leaſt Poſſibility of a Suſpicion.’
Captain Blifil took not the leaſt Notice of this, at that Time; but he afterwards made a very notable Uſe of it.
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