Trip 1688 of 5250 collection book46
He ventured to condemn the impetuosity of the baronet who he perceived wasbook75 extremely nice and scrupulous in the punctilios of honour and said it was a pity that two gentlemen should forfeit each others friendship much less expose their lives for such a frivolous cause. Accordingly his valetdechambre pressed by Fathoms importunities and remonstrances ventured to go in and shake the count by the shoulder when this furious Teutonian still agitated by the fever of the preceding night leaped out of bed in a frenzy and seizing his sword that lay upon a table would have severely punished the presumption of his servant had not he been restrained by the entrance of Ferdinand who with a peremptory countenance gave him to understand that the valet had acted at his immediate instigation and that he was come as the Englishmans friend to concert with him proper measures for keeping the appointment they had made at their last meeting. This message effectually calmed the German who was not a little mortified to find himself so disagreeably disturbed.
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