The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Volume 1 Chapter 29

In which Peregrine Pickle, provoked by the deceit of a curate, devises a cunning plan of revenge involving feigned conversations and planted suspicions to incite the jealous rage of a publican. This stratagem culminates in a violent encounter that leaves the curate bruised and the affair the subject of village gossip, all the while our hero and his companion observe with measured satisfaction.