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

~i) her most viv tatcious inaronet, t I, rd.t.aO3 } Sl$
only tolerable lir trlacktlstnit}s anti lt Itl;islthn;ln.I
In ad141(it iont to the cheerful b ilaz o e f eat he ( t th,
twVo \N'waxenl iits in eantliestikss of tias sive sitVt
\vc..e lentdit; their aid to e'nliven the.)ttttarnelt.
O)nle of these was casting its rays b).igihtly alongtt
(the confus(tid olours of the ulp et on whi'ch it
stood, flick lerin befolre tle te it'e tmlovemtentls of
-he fot'a bha i t p hwyed around it with l h st and an)i-s
mateti iftleximns.'llhe po otue of this younfg lady
wa- s int tntil: i'n; tace, andl with one ignorant of'
her Iotives, her eimploymient would have been
o}b)noxious to the sate etons ticlttion. I)ivers sitaIl,
square pieces of silk, shrongly contra8stetd to each
ott)he( in colou i', y ev ery sit Sie of hert anl
were iebangeti(y, as sh-e fk neeledt (on the floor, by her
nnbimble b-ands',intt) as moan y different eoinbii)ations
as if she vxe`C, humotl ing the ancleies of hier sex,
o' ontfsuting the shal(es of her own darkf but richt
comlplexion in the shopl of a mncrccr. The close
satin dIresis of this youn' ft.mnale st'erved to displayt
her smatll t igltur in it s trtie proportions, while
Ietr danclitg (yes of jet-.bthek 8shained tihe dies of
tihe Italian inanuiIct.tlett by t}helit sul)eriiot li'aditMc. A. \ fkiwv ribands of p ink,> disposed a bou t her
per'0s with an il fa tity sttdied, alnd yet ca rele ssly coptettishi, seelmed rather to reflect than1 lendl
the i )ich bloom that mttantled arotiit her ltauh.1lintg
counttenan'cet lea viit: to the eye no cause to retret
thlat' she wavs not,:t faire.l+
Another fimale figr, ue, telad in virtgin \hite, \was
reelinint'r1 oin the end( of a distant couch. The s -
clutsiont itn xwhieh tthey lived l might have rtenderedl
t}his f tmale a lit tle ctareless of her aplppeamanTe(, or,
what was nmore prrobable, the comb Ihad been foitund
unequtl|al toA) its tumtl')n, fobr her Itresses, wNhich ri
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