eleven o'clock at night before
Having thus settled the preliminaries , he withdrew to his own chamber , and spent the whole night in contriving stratagems to elude the jealous caution of his fellow-traveller . They set out in company , breakfast at Abbeville , dine at Amiens and , about eleven o'clock , arrive at Chantilly where Peregrine executes a Plan which he had concerted upon Hornbeck . The whole company by agreement rose and departed before day , and breakfasted at Abbeville , where they became acquainted with the finesse of their Bernay landlord , who had imposed upon them , in affirming that they would not have been admitted after the gates were shut . From thence they proceeded to Amiens , where they dined , and were pestered by begging friars ; and the roads being deep , it was eleven o'clock at night before they reached Chantilly , where they found supper already dressed , in consequence of having despatched the valet-de-chambre before them on horseback . The constitution of Hornbeck being very much impaired by a life of irregularity , he found himself so fatigued with his day 's journey , which amounted to upwards of a hundred miles , that when he sat down at table , he could scarce sit upright ; and in less than three minutes began to nod in his chair . Peregrine , who had foreseen and provided for this occasion , advised him to exhilarate his spirits with a glass of wine ; and the proposal being embraced , tipped his valet-de-chambre the wink , who , according to the instructions he had received , qualified the Burgundy with thirty drops of laudanum , which this unfortunate husband swallowed in one glass . The dose , cooperating with his former drowsiness , lulled him so fast to sleep , as it were instantaneously , that it was found necessary to convey him to his own chamber , where his footman undressed and put him to bed : nor was Jolter -LRB- naturally of a sluggish disposition -RRB- able to resist his propensity to sleep , without suffering divers dreadful yawns , which encouraged his pupil to administer the same dose to him , which had operated so successfully upon the other Argus .