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

wfere cve-ntutally converted into her jturison. tit4
ts tXhe sever\tt of the old1( vtecrant was as olftenl
nuartkLed bty an cexhibition of his virtlltis as of his
itbibles, the co('nlitnieltt lit his dtisipleasutlre oltstititued the sole sulijects of' complaint that wierel
gtiven to tle youngt laty. ITh'at outlr readetlrs ay
ht, better (:jtlttliftied to judge of the natut e of theii
imtlris)onitent, we shall ttransport them, withott
filrthetr circitnth:tiutiotnl into the prIesetet of the
two feinales, whom ithey i tst be already preparchi
to rec.ive.
lie xxit/hdr awing-tooin of St. Ruth's was an
apat lnttlent which, ttradition said, had fobrtnerly beei
the itcfictory oft the little bexvy of fiti sincrs- who-,t
sonlrht la rcftf;tr( within its wialls fit'otn thet tetmplta
tions of' fth(et olti.'hei' number Ntas5 itot large,
tiot' ttil ti enitertainments verty. splendid, or this
litited space could inot have. containtted teite. l'f
lr0ooml, hi1owetvevri, wvas of' fai'r dittlensions, Iand an atir
of peculiat comtnbrft, tmingled with chastentd luxus
ry, was thrown around it, by the voluninnous fllds
of ith} bltu datmaslk elft;ains trhat nearly cotceaaled
thie sides where the:leep windowt s w'e'ef Ie )C. d
and by the dark leathcrn hangin'gs,' richly'h stamtiped"
with cunnin{g dfevices in gold, that ort ia tAeit tietl tdhe
twso otfXers.. Massive couches i'nl cairved in altoga.
tny, with ch'airs of a simiar it'materiall and fthsilit,):tll covered by the sam e rich tabrie f tat composed..
th} euitairtis, togethcir with a'1tt'lhVCVy arpett ovetr.
thes shag'gy s"uruface of whvich all te tcolours of' the
raitbtlow wetc sc'attered in bright eoinfusison, uttitedl
to reflieve the gloomy s)len(lour of' tilhe eltnoltrtinot
tmantle, dtttep, hetavy cornices, and thet compl Aicat cttdl
carvings of the tmassive Nwood-wolrk which} etitnir ed tile vwalls. A b.rtisk fire of \ood was b})triint (itt te heart, in compliment to the wilfiul
p)rtejudice of A\iss Plowden, wio had tl t aintain{tted.