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In which a Shooting Match is proposed.
Early mention has been made in this history of Mr.Garbetts, Principal Tragedian, a promising and athletic young actor, of jovial habits and irregular inclinations, between whom and Mr.Costigan there was a considerable intimacy.

They were the chief ornaments of the convivial club held at the Magpie Hotel; they helped each other in various bill transactions in which they had been engaged, with the mutual loan of each other's valuable signatures.

They were friends, in fine: although Mr.Garbetts seldom called at Costigan's house, being disliked by Miss Fotheringay, of whom in her turn Mrs.Garbetts was considerably jealous.
The truth is, that Garbetts had paid his court to Miss Fotheringay and been refused by her, before he offered his hand to Mrs.G.Their history, however, forms no part of our present scheme--suffice it, Mr.Garbetts was called in by Captain Costigan immediately after his daughter and Mr.Bows had quitted the house, as a friend proper to be consulted at the actual juncture.

He was a large man, with a loud voice and fierce aspect, who had the finest legs of the whole company, and could break a poker in mere sport across his stalwart arm.
"Run, Tommy," said Mr.Costigan to the little messenger, "and fetch Mr.
Garbetts from his lodgings over the tripe shop, ye know, and tell 'em to send two glasses of whisky-and-water, hot, from the Grapes." So Tommy went his way; and presently Mr.Garbetts and the whisky came.
Captain Costigan did not disclose to him the whole of the previous events, of which the reader is in possession; but, with the aid of the spirits-and-water, he composed a letter of a threatening nature to Major Pendennis's address, in which he called upon that gentleman to offer no hindrance to the marriage projected between Mr.Arthur Pendennis and his daughter, Miss Fotheringay, and to fix an early day for its celebration: or, in any other case, to give him the satisfaction which was usual between gentlemen of honour.