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Contains both Love and War.
Cicero and Euripides did not occupy Mr.Pen much for some time after this, and honest Mr.Smirke had a very easy time with his pupil.

Rebecca was the animal who suffered most in the present state of Pen's mind, for, besides those days when he could publicly announce his intention of going to Chatteris to take a fencing-lesson, and went thither with the knowledge of his mother, whenever he saw three hours clear before him, the young rascal made a rush for the city, and found his way to Prior's Lane.

He was as frantic with vexation when Rebecca went lame, as Richard at Bosworth, when his horse was killed under him: and got deeply into the books of the man who kept the hunting-stables at Chatteris for the doctoring of his own, and the hire of another animal.
Then, and perhaps once in a week, under pretence of going to read a Greek play with Smirke, this young reprobate set off so as to be in time for the Competitor down coach, stayed a couple of hours in Chatteris, and returned on the Rival which left for London at ten at night.
Once his secret was nearly lost by Smirke's simplicity, of whom Mrs.
Pendennis asked whether they had read a great deal the night before, or a question to that effect.

Smirke was about to tell the truth, that he had never seen Mr.Pen at all, when the latter's boot-heel came grinding down on Mr.Smirke's toe under the table, and warned the curate not to betray him.
They had had conversations on the tender subject, of course.