He is found by Lieutenant--Reconducted to his own House--Married
to Mrs. Grizzle, who meets with a small misfortune in the Night,
and asserts her Prerogative next Morning, in consequence of which
her Husband's Eye is endangered.


Meanwhile Lieutenant Hatchway made shift to hobble to the church,
where he informed the company of what had happened to the commodore:
and the bride behaved with great decency on the occasion; for, as
she understood the danger to which her future husband was exposed,
she fainted in the arms of her sister-in-law, to the surprise of all
the spectators, who could not comprehend the cause of her disorder;
and when she was recovered by the application of smelling-bottles,
earnestly begged that Mr. Hatchway and Tom Pipes should take her
brother's coach, and go in quest of their commander.

This task they readily undertook, being escorted by all the rest of
his adherents on horseback; while the bride and her friends were
invited to the parson's horse, and the ceremony deferred till
another occasion.

The lieutenant, steering his course as near the line of direction
in which Trunnion went off, as the coach-road would permit, got
intelligence of his track from one farm-house to another; for such
an apparition could not fail of attracting particular notice; and
one of the horsemen having picked up his hat and wig in a by-path,
the whole troop entered the village where he was lodged, about