five
o'clock in the afternoon
The two young Gentlemen display their talents for Gallantry , in the course of which they are involved in a ludicrous circumstance of Distress , and afterwards take Vengeance on the Author of their Mishap . Meanwhile our hero and his new friend , together with honest Jack Hatchway , made daily excursions into the country , visited the gentlemen in the neighbourhood , and frequently accompanied them to the chase ; all three being exceedingly caressed on account of their talents , which could accommodate themselves with great facility to the tempers and turns of their entertainers . The lieutenant was a droll in his way , Peregrine possessed a great fund of sprightliness and good-humour , and Godfrey , among his other qualifications already recited , sang a most excellent song ; so that the company of this triumvirate was courted in all parties , whether male or female : and if the hearts of our young gentlemen had not been pre-engaged , they would have met with opportunities in abundance of displaying their address in the art of love : not but that they gave loose to their gallantry without much interesting their affections , and amused themselves with little intrigues , which , in the opinion of a man of pleasure , do not affect his fidelity to the acknowledged sovereign of his soul . In the midst of these amusements , our hero received an intimation from his sister , that she should be overjoyed to meet him next day , at five o'clock in the afternoon , at the house of her nurse , who lived in a cottage hard by her father 's habitation , she being debarred from all opportunity of seeing him in any other place by the severity of her mother , who suspected her inclination . He accordingly obeyed the summons , and went at the time appointed to the place of rendezvous , where he met this affectionate young lady , who when he entered the room , ran towards him with all the eagerness of transport , flung her arms about his neck , and shed a flood of tears in his bosom before she could utter one word , except a repetition of My dear , dear brother ! He embraced her with all the piety of fraternal tenderness , wept over her in his turn , assured her that this was one of the happiest moments of his life , and kindly thanked her for having resisted the example , and disobeyed the injunctions , of his mother 's unnatural aversion . He was ravished to find , by her conversation , that she possessed a great share of sensibility and prudent reflection ; for she lamented the infatuation of her parents with the most filial regret , and expressed such abhorrence and concern at the villainous disposition of her younger brother as a humane sister may be supposed to have entertained .