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

CHAPTEI{ XI.
- I?oo for pwo'dtr thoeyli fill a pit fAi u-'el! ais o ttl r.'&.%flstq f
$1t1 1; three mC-el, w\ho now entered the lapartmernt, appeareld to be nothing- daunted by the presAtce into Nwhi icdh tley xwere ushered, though ladt
in the coarse tand weather-beaten vestnluen\ts of
seamtlen wlho had been exposed to relc.ent tand sevevre dutyt.'I.)hey silenltly obeyed the dtectfiton of
the, sohldier>s bitncr, a nd took their stations inI a
distant ctotrner of thet roomn, tike nmen who I;knew
t}h deti:fercenc tdue to r-ankl, at the samell- timel(u, thlat
the habits of' thcir lives had fot' accustomned them
to encoun'tet ttlthe vicissituodes of the world.'With
this sligltt {p'p)aration, Colonel'ttoward hc itg,'a the
butisiness of cxa nination
it I trust yc are'll good and loyal subtjeets," thet
veteran cointetn emcd)t' lwith a considerate prsp ct
ltls innocence but. the times are such thltat even
thei moslt o'ity ct} lth itac'ters bVecom011e bli iabl'e to stuspit e; and, consC:t utenttly, i' oulr ap}prehe't nsions
should trove erroneous, you mulnst overliook tlhe
tisnt;ike, tand at}trtibte it to the awftlh conditions in-.to whifict rTcbelfiont has plunt.gt'ed this t mnpirc. We
hat,(e in e re{l, ason toi'.!,{ fei't t:hatt som: e pro 1'!ject is
dmbti in (. Ch' f.ditkion the coas!t h the cnivit\1