The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

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ttlIt, and quite a geittleimiail. I hatte nlerVt0 (delie
that t Mr. ttWashint}.gto was very t uch of ignttletlalt.)>
"Yes, sa id the sotldier, yawhin,' he ha\vs c(lt.
oated am.otlg his tmajesty's troops", and he couldt
hardly be othetrwise. But I am quite meitlancltco y
about this unfortunate drowning0, Colonel I1toward.
Iet.em will be an end( of my vocation, I suppose, and
I am far frtom denying that your hlospitality htas
made these quarters most agree able to mte.'
t'hen, sir, thle obligation is only mutual," retturned the hlost, with a )polite inclination of his
iea(: "lint gentlemen, \}wo, like ourstlvts, have
beeln inadle free of the caumlu, need not bandy idle
foml)plimlents about such trifles. If it were ilmy
kil.nsmalln, I)illon, -tnow, wlvose thoughts rul it more
on Coke upon Litttleton than on the gayeties af a
mess-ttble, and a soldier's life, he mig"ht thiink sttu}c
irtmalities as necessaryt as his har(l wors are to a
dteed. Come, 1Borrougtefliflt, my dat tfiltow,
believe wt e thave given an honest glass to ach of
thie royal family, (od bl ess tIhemt 0 all!) let uts
swallow a bulrnt'er to t te mtemory of thel itnortal
Wolfe."' An. honest proposal, ilty galltat host, anld such
it one as a s-oldier 1wil l never declile," returtned
thte aptain, who roused hitself wAith the occasion.
" od b)less thei t all, siay 1, it echo, tand if this
tratious quteen of ourt s tens as tmotusly as sle has
let.un,'twill be such a ftmily of p)rinces as no other
a:rtgmy ill IEturote can ltra of around a mtess-table."
A y, ay, th}ere is some c0 sVollatiet in) tt that
thought, in the mIidst of thils (lire rebellioln of utiy
countrymenr. "Butt I'll veX myself 10o more with
the utpleasantt recollections; thle arms of rly
-overe.ign wOill sooll purpg3e. that wicked land of tile
foutl ta in