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Pen shook his mane and raged like a furious lion when these scandals,
affecting Miss Costigan's honour and his own, came to his ears. Why was
not Pybus a man (she had whiskers enough), that he might call her out and
shoot her? Seeing Simcoe pass by, Pen glared at him so from his saddle on
Rebecca, and clutched his whip in a manner so menacing, that that
clergyman went home and wrote a sermon, or thought over a sermon (for he
delivered oral testimony at great length), in which he spoke of Jezebel,
theatrical entertainments (a double cut this--for Doctor Portman, the
Rector of the old church, was known to frequent such), and of youth going
to perdition, in a manner which made it clear to every capacity that Pen
was the individual meant, and on the road alluded to. What stories more
were there not against young Pendennis, whilst he sate sulking,
Achilles-like in his tent, for the loss of his ravished Briseis?
After the affair with Hobnell, Pen was pronounced to be a murderer as
well as a profligate, and his name became a name of terror and a byword
in Clavering.


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