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

':T11 PI.O,(T'I I t i
tter-. evet may h*t.- dispensed with to,' inter ruptett
na: i,. )tst-n:::tl, i in s a ttela1teholy, (-tl)eti tottet
T: t}Itetre ale tw ivitng. \twho 1ttlow ttii: datn.t:geroust
paths that ct ce(ll c(ltltct ventl the santlletirst craft inI
safet:ty friom the lalnd, IA ithl daylight' atdl faitr wi(nds
bittt wlct datlness and advertt se,tles oppflst
tlemn) thfe c.hanc( for safet t.ty lies wholly inl (1od
Theire is truly ltlnch reason to })elieve they
are lost," returned the vetetran, in a voice in XvwhUlie.
no exuiltatliol was appttrent.
" bthey are not lost!" exl'aimed KIatlterine
with startling energtyt, I leatvin beS t l Sei att and waltki}' 81ts tlhe t'oomt) to jo(itn Cetiia, wx-ith an air that
seet1ied to elevate her little fititur to the 1(eighlt of
ter coutsin. "'t'hy are skitful and they are brt avte
and Nwhat g.allant sailors can t do, w ill they do, and
sU(eessfutl ly; besides, in whose: t)e/lf wouhld a just
I- ro idence soont:oer exereise its mtere tlil power:
th;an to protctc tthe d(arllt childlret of al oppt'cesserd
countrly, twhile eolttettdinlg against tyranny andl
ounittless wrtiongs
I'l'he conciiatingt dispositont of the Colonel (lesette( him, as he listentted. His own btlack eyer
slptrkled with a vividness tunusual for t' hi s years'
nl1fd his courttesy bareily pe:rmitted the lad(y to eonvIude), ete he broke foirt'h.
XXWhat sin t mad(ami wvhliA: idatning, etite, wold
sotlolne e.(alt down tihe just wrath of'l.eaven on the
ttaUttsgressors5 thant the act of fiotl rebelliotnt? It
was this crime, Iadatnl tthat (Itelugedt EnI:gland idn
blood inl the, reign of tle tfirst C(;t-les; it is this
er.intt tthat lts (yed more fields ted thoa all tlhe
rest of' mat's ofeit:es united; it htas tJeein visited
Oil o0tr' tace as a ttondign puttuishtnett fi-om n:lhe
idatys of the deselxrvediy ( devoted. bsaiot, d1owt t.):
the )t'resent time; in short* it lost heaven fi:or e'vcr