The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Volume 2 Chapter 98 - part 5

In which a most dismal account is unfolded of a young gentleman’s cruel dispossession and the unrelenting treachery of those who sought to bar his rightful inheritance, amidst schemes of deceit, imprisonment, and base villainy, yet his unwavering protector perseveres in the face of such adversity. Peregrine, moved by this extraordinary tale and accompanied by the priest’s further relation of a strikingly similar misfortune abroad, finds himself eager to know the noble-hearted Mr. M—, whose kindness and steadfastness shine amidst the surrounding ingratitude.